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Plotinus
Plotinus was an ancient Greek philosopher, born and raised in Roman Egypt. He is widely regarded by modern scholars as the founder of Neoplatonism.
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culture · Hellenistic Greek philosopher (c. 204/5–270) · philosopher · writer · also Plotinus, Plotinos
Born 0205 · Died 0270 · Q134189
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2026· 3 entries
Indiatimes: Quote of the day by Plotinus
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Indiatimes: Quote of the Day by Plotinus, "Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second dialectic; of the third ...
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Plotinus, with an English translation by A. H. Armstrong
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2024· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' Enneads
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2017· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Form and Transformation: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus
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2011· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Who was Plotinus?
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2008· 1 entry
Harper's Magazine: Plotinus: The Contest Between Drugs, Magic and Reason
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1917· 1 entry
On the First Good and the Other Goods, Ennead 1
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0270· 2 entries
“I am trying to make what is most divine in me rise back up to what is divine in the universe”
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Died 0270.
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0205· 1 entry
Born 0205.
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