Plotinus
205 AD - 270 AD
Titles on this disk:
- author: The Ethical Treatises, being the Treatises of the First Ennead
- author: Psychic and Physical Treatises; comprising the Second and Third Enneads
- author: Ethical Treatises; the Books of the Fourth Ennead
- author: The Divine Mind; being the Treatises of the Fifth Ennead
- author: On the One and Good; being the Treatises of the Sixth Ennead
About this person:
Plotinus is regarded by many modern philosophers as one of the founders of Neoplatonism. He is primarily remembered for his teachings, which were collected by Porphyry into a volume called the Enneads. This work gives Plotinus’s accounts of the religions and cults of his age. His own religious beliefs inclined toward the idea that one could achieve a spiritual union with the good (understood as the Platonic idea of a perfect realm of the ideal) through philosophic reflection.