Examples of using Plotinus in English and their translations into Dutch
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Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus(see the Enneads), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.
Much of our biographical information about him comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads.
Plotinus, Greek philosopher,
who attended him at the end, Plotinus' final words were:"Try to raise the divine in yourselves to the divine in the all.
who attended him at the end, Plotinus' final words were:"Strive to give back the Divine in yourselves to the Divine in the All.
an Arab by ancestry who died before Plotinus, leaving him a legacy
Plotinus was unable to revise his own work due to his poor eyesight,
In the late tractate 2.3,"Are the stars causes?", Plotinus makes the argument that specific stars influencing one's fortune(a common Hellenistic theme)
Porphyry reported that Plotinus was 66 years old when he died in 270,
he successfully presented his thesis on Plotinus,"Néo-Platonisme et Pensée Chrétienne"(Neo-Platonism and Christian Thought), for his"diplôme d'études supérieures" roughly equivalent to an MA thesis.
In his introduction to the translation of Plotinus, Cosimo de' Medici attended these lectures
who was influenced by the early Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry, as well as the works of the Christian writer Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite,
Porphyry seems to suggest that Ammonius was instrumental in helping Plotinus think about philosophy in new ways: But he did not
According to Porphyry, in 232, at the age of 28, Plotinus went to Alexandria to study philosophy:
Plotinus long ago gave them his answer:”Man can cease to become man, and become God; but man cannot be God
The problem was understood long ago, among others by the Greek neo-Platonist philosopher, Plotinus, who said of immortality:"It is unspeakable, for if you say anything
Let us measure the amount of magic in present civilization by Plotinus' standard Measuring our age by such a standard,
unknowable God Plotinus?
Porphyrius, biography of Plotinus, written in the 3th century.
Plotinus joined the army