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

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2. Now the reasoning faculty which undertakes this problem is not a unity but a thing of parts; it brings the bodily nature into the enquiry, borrowing its principles from the corporeal: thus it thinks of the Essential Existence as corporeal and as a thing of parts; it baulks at the unity because it does not start from the appropriate principles. We, however, must be careful to bring the appropriately convincing principles to the discussion of the Unity, of perfect Being: we must hold to the…

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

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