about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' most notable literary work, The Enneads. In his metaphysical writings, Plotinus described...

The work of Plotinus and other later Platonists in the 3rd century AD to further clarify the Demiurge is known as Neoplatonism. To Plotinus, the second...

with Ammonius Saccas and his student Plotinus (c. 204/5–271 AD) and stretched to the sixth century. After Plotinus there were three distinct periods in...

transmitted to the lower, which remained unchanged by the lower emanations. For Plotinus and Porphyry the emanations are as follows: To Hen (τό ἕν), The One: Deity...

Stamatellos, Giannis (2007), Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' Enneads, SUNY Press, ISBN 978-0791470626...

collection of writings of the philosopher Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. AD 270). Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas, and...

The logos was a key element in the meditations of Plotinus regarded as the first neoplatonist. Plotinus referred back to Heraclitus and as far back as Thales...

students of Plotinus. The philosopher Plotinus was the founder of a tradition later known as Neoplatonism. Porphyry, the most important of Plotinus's pupils...

known as the teacher of Plotinus, whom he taught from 232 to 243. He was undoubtedly the most significant influence on Plotinus in his development of Neoplatonism...

[verification needed] Building on concepts described by Iamblichus and Plotinus, the late Neoplatonist Proclus posited two "carriers" of the soul: the...

and began a period known as Middle Platonism. In the 3rd century AD, Plotinus added additional mystical elements, establishing Neoplatonism, in which...

hypostasis of the soul, the intellect (nous) and "the one" was addressed by Plotinus. In Christian theology, the Holy Trinity consists of three hypostases:...

necessary or contingent. An alternative line of development was taken by Plotinus in the second century who by a process of abstraction reduced Aristotle's...

ISBN 978-2-85653-867-8, retrieved 2024-07-10 "The Enneads of Plotinus: Porphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Arrangement of his Work". www.sacred-texts.com...

as Plotinus and Porphyry, though perhaps not to later neoplatonists such as Iamblichus. Gnostics were in conflict with the idea expressed by Plotinus that...

by Plotinus' works as mediated through the Theology and similar works. The translator attempted to integrate Aristotle's ideas with those of Plotinus —...

and Christian mysticism. Plotinus (204/5–270 AD) was the founder of Neo-Platonism. In the Neo-Platonic philosophy of Plotinus and Proclus, the first principle...

or discourse on the One that appears most notably in the philosophy of Plotinus. Henology stands in contradistinction to several other philosophical disciplines...

universe. Plotinus compared his principle of 'the One' to an illuminating light, as Plato did with the Form of the Good. As a result of Plotinus' school...

death. Plotinus believed in two parts of the soul, a higher level rational part and the lower level portion located in the entire body. Plotinus saw the...

clear that Origen's fellow students Plotinus and Longinus treated him with respect. According to Porphyry, Plotinus estimated him so far as to say that...

diction. In opposition to Plotinus, Longinus upheld the doctrine that the Platonic ideas existed outside the divine Nous. Plotinus, after reading his treatise...

Valentinius, a lesser deity known as the Demiurge (see also Neoplatonism, Plotinus) had a role in the creation of the material world separate from the Monad...

may be due in part to Plotinus' attempt to refute certain interpretations of Platonic philosophy, through his Enneads. Plotinus believed the followers...

Companion to Plotinus, p. 32). "Everything comes from contemplation" (Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, p. 32). "According to his (Plotinus) metaphysical...

under Anatolius of Laodicea and later studied under Porphyry, a pupil of Plotinus (the founder of neoplatonism). Iamblichus disagreed with Porphyry about...

comprehensive attack on Christianity, in part building on the teachings of Plotinus. By the 12th century, the Mishneh Torah (i.e., Rabbi Moses Maimonides)...

Halfwassen states in Der Aufstieg zum Einen' (2006) that "Plotinus' ontology – which should be called Plotinus' henology – is a rather accurate philosophical renewal...

Part 2: Plotinus, Theurgy, and the Question of Ritual," Dionysius 22 (2004): 29–56. 2003. "Unio Magica, Part 1: On the Magical Origins of Plotinus' Mysticism...

Underhill here addresses Plotinus (204–270) of Alexandria and later of Rome. A Neoplatonist as well as a spiritual guide, Plotinus writes regarding both...