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Traités 27-29: Sur les difficultés relatives à l'âme

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Né en Égypte au début du IIIᵉ siècle de notre ère, Plotin s'installe à Rome en 246, en terre stoïcienne, pour y enseigner les principes d'une philosophie platonicienne et y inaugurer la tradition qu'on dit aujourd'hui "néoplatonicienne". De 254 jusqu'à la veille de sa mort, en 270, Plotin rédige un ensemble de textes que son disciple Porphyre éditera vers l'année 300 en les distribuant en six "neuvaines" : les Ennéades. Dans ces traités, Plotin se propose de guider l'âme de son lecteur sur le chemin d'une ascèse qui doit la conduire vers son principe, "l'Intellect", et lui permettre alors de percevoir, pour s'y unir, le principe de toutes choses qu'est "l'Un".La présente collection regroupe, en 9 volumes, les 54 traités de Plotin, traduits et présentés dans l'ordre chronologique qui fut celui de leur rédaction.

299 pages, Pocket Book

First published May 13, 2005

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Plotinus

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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

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