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Plotinus

205 AD - 270 AD

About the Author

Plotinus is regarded by many modern philosophers as one of the founders of Neoplatonism. He is primarily remembered for his teachings, which were collected by Porphyry into a volume called the Enneads. This work gives Plotinus’s accounts of the religions and cults of his age. His own religious beliefs inclined toward the idea that one could achieve a spiritual union with the good (understood as the Platonic idea of a perfect realm of the ideal) through philosophic reflection.

In The Library:

• author: The Enneads, or The Ethical Treatises , 5 vols. (253 AD)
• author: The Ethical Treatises, being the Treatises of the First Ennead (253 AD)
• author: Psychic and Physical Treatises; comprising the Second and Third Enneads (253 AD)
• author: Ethical Treatises; the Books of the Fourth Ennead (253 AD)
• author: The Divine Mind; being the Treatises of the Fifth Ennead (253 AD)
• author: On the One and Good; being the Treatises of the Sixth Ennead (253 AD)