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Ennead III.8 [30]: On nature, contemplation and the One

Plotinus

The first part of the great treatise against the Gnostics. It opens with the thesis that "all things aspire to contemplation": nature too contemplates when it produces, and action is a detour of contemplation for those who cannot contemplate. It rises to the One, which lies beyond Intellect.

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Translated by Stephen MacKenna · 5 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1 · 16′
  2. 2 · 27′
  3. 3 · 35′
  4. 4 · 45′
  5. 5 · 52′
Ennead III.8 [30]: On nature, contemplation and the One by Plotinus — full text · The Conscious Library