Collected Writings of Plotinus

The Thomas Taylor Series #3

by Plotinus, Thomas Taylor (Translator)

This volume reprints, for the first time, all the known translations of Plotinus' Enneads by Thomas Taylor. Originally published in five separate books, the Prometheus Trust makes them all available together in one volume. Plotinus stands as the great reviver of Platonism as a living philosophy, and a true basis for real mystical development. From his inspiration and work arose a line of profound thinkers, whose works remain a high-water mark in the religious and philosophical achievements of humanity. This new edition comprises 27 treatises on such subjects as:

• The Good
• The Immortality of the Soul
• Providence
• Dialectic
• Virtue
• Felicity
• Eternity and Time
• The Nature and Origin of Evil
• Matter
• Intellect

The volume also includes Taylor's lengthy introductions and notes, which offer an invaluable aid to the student of Plotinus' writings.

490 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1994

About the author

Egyptian-born Roman philosopher Plotinus and his successors in the 3rd century at Alexandria founded and developed Neoplatonism, a philosophical system, which, based on Platonism with elements of mysticism and some Judaic and Christian concepts, posits a single source from which all existence emanates and with which one mystically can unite an individual soul; The Enneads collects his writings.

Saint Thomas Aquinas combined elements of this system and other philosophy within a context of Christian thought.

People widely consider this major of the ancient world alongside Ammonius Saccas, his teacher.
He influenced in late antiquity. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from preface of Porphyry to his edition. His metaphysical writings inspired centuries of pagan, Islamic, and Gnostic metaphysicians and mystics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus