Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. We begin with the soul, asking whether it is to be allowed self-knowledge and what the knowing principle in it would be and how operating. The sense-principle in it we may at once decide, takes cognisance only of the external; even in any awareness of events within the body it occupies, this is still the perception of something external to a principle dealing with those bodily conditions not as within but as beneath itself.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 2

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