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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTA...

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15. But there is a difficulty affecting this entire settlement: Eternity is characteristic of the Intellectual-Principle, time of the soul- for we hold that time has its substantial being in the activity of the soul, and springs from soul- and, since time is a thing of division and comports a past, it would seem that the activity producing it must also be a thing of division, and that its attention to that past must imply that even the All-Soul has memory? We repeat, identity belongs to the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTA...

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