Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry’s chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problemati
The term dunamis (potentiality) entered into the philosophical vocabulary with Plato, but it was with Aristotle that it acquired, together with energeia (actuality), the strong technical meaning that
"Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the title may suggest a work on aesthetics and thus of
For Plotinus, the nature and status of the human soul is one of the central problems of philosophy.Ennead IV.3-–4.29 constitutes his most penetrating enquiry into this topic, addressing the issues of
?Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul.?In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many noble things about t
"A translation of Plotinus' Enneads V.5: "That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good," with an introduction and philosophical commentary. Platonists beginning in the Old
