Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 30

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30. Whether pleasure must enter into the good, so that life in the contemplation of the divine things and especially of their source remains still imperfect, is a question not to be ignored in any enquiry into the nature of the good. Now to found the good upon the Intellect and upon that state of soul or mind which springs from wisdom does not imply that the end or the absolute good is the conjunction [of Intellect and state]: it would follow merely that Intellect is the good and that we feel…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 30

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