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Ennead IV.7 [2]: On the immortality of the soul

Plotinus

His second treatise and one of the fullest ancient demonstrations of immortality. It refutes the views that the soul is a body, as Stoics and Epicureans held, a harmony of the body or an entelechy in Aristotle's sense, and concludes that, being incorporeal and the principle of life, it cannot perish.

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Translated by Stephen MacKenna · 5 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1 · 16′
  2. 2 · 27′
  3. 3 · 39′
  4. 4 · 48′
  5. 5 · 54′
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