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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 22

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22. Passivity, thus, implies the existence within of a motion functioning somehow or other in the direction of alteration. Action too implies motion within, whether the motion be aimless or whether it be driven by the impulse comported by the term "Action" to find its goal in an external object.

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