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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 25

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25. It is in view, probably, of this difficulty that Plato, in the Philebus, makes pleasure an element in the Term; the good is not defined as a simplex or set in Intellectual-Principle alone; while he rightly refrains from identifying the good with the pleasant, yet he does not allow Intellectual-Principle, foreign to pleasure, to be The Good, since he sees no attractive power in it. He may also have had in mind that the good, to answer to its name, must be a thing of delight and that an…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 25

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