Plotinus

[ ploh-tahy-nuhs ]

noun

1. a.d. 205?–270?, Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.

Plotinus

/ plɒˈtaɪnəs /

noun

1. Plotinus?205?270MRomanEgyptianPHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?205–?270 ad , Roman Neo-Platonist philosopher, born in Egypt

Example Sentences

As with Plotinus, the Hellenistic founder of Neoplatonic philosophy, Viola’s installation proposes memory as a perceptual function that allows a human soul to acknowledge its own existence.

From Los Angeles Times

“Most of what? The dialogues, you mean? What about later things? Plotinus?”

From Literature

Morgan pointed out that in the thought of Plato, Plotinus and early Christian thinkers like Pseudo-Dionysius, beauty in the ancient world often functioned as a source of spiritual elevation.

From Washington Post

Whether Shankara and Plotinus and Meister Eckhart ever took psychedelics, who knows, but they may have just generated their own biochemical ingredients unconsciously.

From The Guardian

There, he wrote Levin, he was “reading nothing more frivolous than Plotinus and Husserl,” and Harry was welcome to join him “if Wellfleet becomes too worldly.”

From Salon