Plotinus
3rd-century CE Greek-speaking philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism; author of the Enneads (compiled by his student Porphyry) and influential in late antique and medieval philosophical and theological thought.
Books
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1. The Essential Plotinus
A concise selection of Neoplatonic teachings that lays out a hierarchical metaphysics in which all reality flows forth from a transcendent, ineffable One into Intellect and Soul, and describes the soul’s inward path of return through contemplation, virtue, and mystical union; it examines the nature of beauty, knowledge, and being, arguing that true understanding transcends sensory experience and is realized by ascending to intellectual vision and reclaiming the soul’s original unity with the divine, while offering ethical and spiritual insights for freeing the soul from material constraint.