Plotinus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:00:48 1 Biography
00:02:40 1.1 Expedition to Persia and return to Rome
00:04:27 1.2 Later life
00:06:23 2 Major ideas
00:06:33 2.1 One
00:09:31 2.2 Emanation by the One
00:11:53 2.3 The true human and happiness
00:14:57 2.4 Henosis
00:17:25 3 Relation with contemporary philosophy and religion
00:17:37 3.1 Plotinus's Relation to Plato
00:19:25 3.2 Plotinus and the Gnostics
00:21:55 3.3 Against causal astrology
00:22:34 4 Influence
00:22:43 4.1 Ancient world
00:23:18 4.2 Christianity
00:24:22 4.3 Islam
00:25:14 4.4 Judaism
00:25:52 4.5 Renaissance
00:26:24 4.6 England
00:26:46 4.7 India
00:27:37 5 See also



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Plotinus (; Greek: Πλωτῖνος, Plōtinos; c. 204/5 – 270) was a major Greek-speaking philosopher of the ancient world. In his philosophy, described in the Enneads, there are three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition.  Historians of the 19th century invented the term Neoplatonism and applied it to him and his philosophy which was influential in Late Antiquity. Much of the biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads. His metaphysical writings have inspired centuries of Pagan, Islamic, Jewish, Christian,  and Gnostic metaphysicians and mystics.