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Ennead III.6 [26]: On the impassibility of the bodiless

Plotinus

It argues that the soul, being incorporeal, does not really suffer affections: passions are movements of the compound and opinions. Matter too is impassible: like a mirror it receives images without being changed.

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Translated by Stephen MacKenna · 6 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1 · 18′
  2. 2 · 29′
  3. 3 · 310′
  4. 4 · 46′
  5. 5 · 58′
  6. 6 · 67′
Ennead III.6 [26]: On the impassibility of the bodiless by Plotinus — full text · The Conscious Library