| #980189 in Books | 1967-01-01 | 1967-01-31 | Original language:Ancient Greek | PDF # 1 | 6.00 x1.00 x4.00l,.61 | File type: PDF | 432 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The Pinnacle of Platonism...|By Brian C.|This review is for Ennead III (volume III of the Loeb edition of the Enneads). This is one of the most important and interesting of the Enneads in my opinion. Enneads III. 6-8 are all extremely interesting and important. III.6 is probably Plotinus' most sustained discussion of the nature of matter (along with II.4) and the receptacle, II
Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).
Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Plotinus: Volume III: Ennead 3 (Loeb Classical Library No. 442) | Plotinus. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
