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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 20

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20. Since we are not entitled to make desire the test by which to decide on the nature and quality of the good, we may perhaps have recourse to judgement. We would apply the opposition of things- order, disorder; symmetry, irregularity; health, illness; form, shapelessness; real-being, decay: in a word continuity against dissolution.

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