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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. But why have we to call in Philosophy to make the Soul immune if it is thus immune from the beginning? Because representations attack it at what we call the affective phase and cause a resulting experience, a disturbance, to which disturbance is joined the image of threatened evil: this amounts to an affection and Reason seeks to extinguish it, to ban it as destructive to the well-being of the Soul which by the mere absence of such a condition is immune, the one possible cause of affection…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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