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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTA...

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37. Those ascribing Intellection to the First have not supposed him to know the lesser, the emanant- though, indeed, some have thought it impossible that he should not know everything. But those denying his knowing of the lesser have still attributed self-knowing to him, because they find nothing nobler; we are to suppose that so he is the more august, as if Intellection were something nobler than his own manner of being not something whose value derives from him.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTA...

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