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

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2. But individuals are brought into being by the union of the Reason-Principles of the parents, male and female: this seems to do away with a definite Reason-Principle for each of the offspring: one of the parents- the male let us say- is the source; and the offspring is determined not by Reason-Principles differing from child to child but by one only, the father's or that of the father's father. No: a distinct Reason-Principle may be the determinant for the child since the parent contains all…

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

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