Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 20

Summary only - full text stays on its own separately-gated source. Read the full text at the source »

20. As with bodily pain and pleasure so with the bodily desires; their origin, also, must be attributed to what thus stands midway, to that Nature we described as the corporeal. Body undetermined cannot be imagined to give rise to appetite and purpose, nor can pure soul be occupied about sweet and bitter: all this must belong to what is specifically body but chooses to be something else as well, and so has acquired a restless movement unknown to the soul and by that acquisition is forced to aim…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 20

Related pages View as graph →