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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. Again, there is movement: all bodily movement is uniform; failing an incorporeal soul, how account for diversity of movement? Predilections, reasons, they will say; that is all very well, but these already contain that variety and therefore cannot belong to body which is one and simplex, and, besides, is not participant in reason- that is, not in the sense here meant, but only as it is influenced by some principle which confers upon it the qualities of, for instance, being warm or cold.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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