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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 18

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18. There remains still something to be said on the question whether the soul uses deliberate reason before its descent and again when it has left the body. Reasoning is for this sphere; it is the act of the soul fallen into perplexity, distracted with cares, diminished in strength: the need of deliberation goes with the less self-sufficing intelligence; craftsmen faced by a difficulty stop to consider; where there is no problem their art works on by its own forthright power.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 18

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