Armstrong, A. H.
Plotinus, Enneads II (1966)
Again, it looks as if Plotinus was thinking of “Gnosticising” Platonists, who derived their ideas to some extent from Numenius, at least as much as of Gnostics properly so called ; cp. the second note…
Again, it looks as if Plotinus was thinking of “Gnosticising” Platonists, who derived their ideas to some extent from Numenius, at least as much as of Gnostics properly so called ; cp. the second note…
Short statement of the doctrine of the three hypostases, the One, Intellect and Soul ; there cannot be more or fewer than these three. Criticism of attempts to multiply the hypostases, and especially of the…
Here, and in what follows in the rest of the chapter, Plotinus is probably not only, or even primarily, concerned with explicitly Gnostic doctrines. He is attacking views which were held in the Platonic school…
This odd little collection of notes (No. 13 in Porphyry’s chronological order, but the numbering must be quite arbitrary: the notes are unlikely all to have been written at about the same time), which Porphyry…
The spontaneous, unreasoning (though supremely intelligent) character of the creative activity of Intellect and higher soul is something on which Plotinus several times insists, against Jews, Christians and simple minded Platonists who supposed that God…
For the possibility of beauty being either the First or the Second Hypostasis cp. I, 6.9.40-43. In the great work III, 8 (30) – V. 8 (31) – V.5 (32) – II.9 (33) beauty is…
On a vu, d’après le précédent traité (chap. XIII), que l’union de l’âme et du corps était une objection contre la thèse platonicienne de la nature divine et immortelle de l’âme. C’est la question de…
Ne pourrait-on pas dire, à l’inverse, que cette unité est l’unité même de l’intelligence ? Mais, si l’on n’admet point la séparation de l’Un immobile, qui reste en soi, et de l’Intelligence qui est un…
Le Dieu, c’est Cronos lui-même, rattaché étymologiquement à κόρος, satiété ; cette étymologie suggère le thème, fort répandu dans les milieux religieux, de l’ivresse intelligible ; on le retrouve chez Philon d’Alexandrie ; cf.…
On voit ici à la fois le motif et la condamnation des doctrines qui multipliaient les hypostases, telles que celle des Gnostiques ; elle réalisait en une hypostase nouvelle chacun des actes qu’elle attribuait au…