Part of: The Ethical Treatises, being the Treatises of the First Ennead Ethical Treatises; the Books of the Fourth Ennead

• Plotinus (author)
• Stephen Mackenna (translator)

Plotinus 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. He was interested in the occult but only in a detached and speculative way. He was indifferent to traditional paganism but critical of the Gnostic Christian heretics who preached the mystical dualism of the divine, which he regarded as antiphilosophical, un-Greek, and emotional superstition.