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Plotinus
[ ploh-tahy-nuhs ]
noun
- a.d. 205?–270?, Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
Plotinus
/ plɒˈtaɪnəs /
noun
- Plotinus?205?270MRomanEgyptianPHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?205–?270 ad , Roman Neo-Platonist philosopher, born in Egypt
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Plotinus accompanies the Roman army, in the hope of reaching India.
Coleridge had, it seems, been attracted by Plotinus in his schooldays.
Plotinus in Aristotelian disguise contributed not a little to their conception of God and his relation to the universe.
Aristotle's system may be called theistic and dualistic; Plotinus's is pantheistic and monistic.
The Intelligence and the three Souls proceeding from it in order are clearly not individual but cosmic, just as in Plotinus.
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