Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (–1940)
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Plotinus: Complete Works: In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods. [single volume, unabridged] (2017) 11 Exemplare
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LITTLE NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Although Eunapio maintains that he was born in Licón and Suidas, he assures that in Licópolis, his place of birth is not known with certainty. Natural of the Roman province Egypt, saw the light towards the 203 or 204 d. J. C. In 232 he entered the circle of Ammonius Saccas (or Sakkas) in Alexandria, of whom Origen (the heathen), 2 Longinus and Erenius were also disciples. He embarked on 242 in the war expedition of Emperor Gordianus III to Persia for the purpose of knowing Persian philosophy. Failed the expedition and killed the emperor, he managed to find refuge in Antioch. He opened a school in Rome (246) where he soon enjoyed the favor of the most conspicuous court figures, including Emperor Gallienus and his wife Cornelia Salonina.
He used to pick up orphaned children in his house and he served as their guardian and, although he personally led a very ascetic life, he was a sweet and affectionate person, a vegetarian, he did not marry or let himself be portrayed "so as not to give rise to shadow of another shadow "[citation needed]. He was credited with mystical gifts as a visionary. His disciple Porfirio, author of his biography Life of Plotinus and the systematization and publication of his central work Enéadas, says that in the six years he was with him, Plotinus came to "join and join the God omnitranscendente" up to four times.
From 254 he begins to put his works in writing. Their treaties are in total 54 and they are arranged in six books of nine chapters, result of which they receive the name of Enéadas. It is considered as one of the most solid Treaties of Antiquity, together with those of Plato and those of Aristotle. He died suffering from a painful disease (leprosy) in 270 AD. at 66, in Campania.
Defined as mystic Neoplatonic, Plotinus realizes a new foundation of classical metaphysics, taking paths more linked to the mystic of Pythagorean and Platonic roots than to the path followed by Aristotle.
We should start from the idea that the philosophy of Plotinus is a kind of Cosmogony linked to a Physics. The theoretical form assumed by his discourse is metaphysics. In that sense he is heir of Aristotle, but above all of Plato.
ABOUT THE WORK
F NUMBERS SIXTH ENNEAD, BOOK SIx.Of Numbers.NIFOLDNESS IS DISTANCE FROM UNITY, AND
2 Is infinity this distarice carried to the extremenifold? (That is probable) or every being beMAEVIL
Does manifoldness consist in' distance fromunity se it is an innumerable manitoldness? Is then an evil, and are we ourselves evil when we are manifold when, not being able to remain turned it blossoms out; it extends while dividnd thus losing all unity in its expansion, it be-
comes manifoldness, because there is nothing that holds ertheless, there still towards itself, is Dan something that holds its parts mutually united, remain then, though blossoming out, (the essence) rem and becomes manifoldness
HOW MANITOLDNESS IS AN EVIL
But what is there to be feared in magnitude? If (the essence) that has increased could feel (it would feel that which in itself has become evil; for) it would feel that it had issued from itself, and had even gone to a great distance (from itself). No (essence), in deed, seeks that which is other than itself; every (essence) secks itself.. The movement by which (an essence) issues from itself is caused either by "audac ity," or necessity. Every (being) exists in the highest degree not when it becomes manifold or great, but when it belongs to itself; now this occurs when it ...… (mehr)