Armstrong, A. H.
Plotinus, Enneads III (1967)
The object of Plotinus is to explain how belief in the existence and goodness of divine providence can be justified in the face of all the apparent evils in the world: the opponents he has…
The object of Plotinus is to explain how belief in the existence and goodness of divine providence can be justified in the face of all the apparent evils in the world: the opponents he has…
The Gnostics: cp. II. 9 [33], of which the title is given by Porphyry in Life, ch. 24, 56-57, as “Against those who say that the maker of the universe is evil, and the universe…
Cp. Xenophon, Cyropaedia I. 6. 6. As this comparison suggests, this whole passage (8. 36 – 9. 19) should not be taken as directed primarily against the Christians (though Plotinus may possibly have them in…
This treatise (No. 30 in the chronological order) is in fact the first part of a major work of Plotinus, including also Nos. 31–33 (V 8, V 5 and II 9), the four sections of…
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…