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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. Are we to think that a being knowing itself must contain diversity, that self-knowledge can be affirmed only when some one phase of the self perceives other phases, and that therefore an absolutely simplex entity would be equally incapable of introversion and of self-awareness? No: a being that has no parts or phases may have this consciousness; in fact there would be no real self-knowing in an entity presented as knowing itself in virtue of being a compound- some single element in it…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 1

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