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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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4. Another consideration is that if The Good [and First] is simplex and without need, it can neither need the intellective act nor possess what it does not need: it will therefore not have intellection. (Interpolation or corruption: It is without intellection because, also, it contains no duality.) Again; an Intellectual-Principle is distinct from The Good and takes a certain goodness only by its intellection of The Good.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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