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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE...

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2. Thus there is the primally intellective and there is that in which intellection has taken another mode; but this indicates that what transcends the primarily intellective has no intellection; for, to have intellection, it must become an Intellectual-Principle, and, if it is to become that, it must possess an intellectual object and, as primarily intellective, it must possess that intellectual object as something within itself. But it is not inevitable that every intellectual object should…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE...

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