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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. To this our first answer is that to place certain things under one identical class- by admitting an identical range of operation- is to make them of one common species, and puts an end to all mention of part; the reasonable conclusion would be, on the contrary, that there is one identical soul, every separate manifestation being that soul complete. Our opponents after first admitting the unity go on to make our soul dependent on something else, something in which we have no longer the soul…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 2

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