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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 17

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17. We may be told that neither Act nor Motion requires a genus for itself, but that both revert to Relation, Act belonging to the potentially active, Motion to the potentially motive. Our reply is that Relation produces relatives as such, and not the mere reference to an external standard; given the existence of a thing, whether attributive or relative, it holds its essential character prior to any relationship: so then must Act and Motion, and even such an attribute as habit; they are not…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 17

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