Plotinus
Hellenistic Platonist philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism (c. 204/5-270) · Academics · Lived 205 to 270 · aged 65
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Something wrong?He built a cosmos out of three principles - the One, the Intellect, the Soul - and watched it reshape how pagan mystics, early Christians, Islamic thinkers, and Jewish metaphysicians understood reality for the next thousand years.
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, It is by participation of species that we call every sensible object beautiful.
Perhaps, the good and the beautiful are the same, and must be investigated by one and the same process; and in like manner the base and the evil.
What measures, then, shall we adopt?
About this person
Plotinus was born around 204 AD in Roman Egypt and studied under Ammonius Saccas, a self-taught philosopher working in the Platonic tradition. In his metaphysical writings he laid out three fundamental principles that became the scaffold of what 19th-century historians would later call Neoplatonism. The system moved through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, pulling in pagan, Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, and early Islamic thinkers who found in his work - especially his treatment of the duality of the One - a language for the structure of existence. He died in 270 AD, leaving a philosophy that had already begun to migrate into mainstream theology across faiths.
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