Plotinus [Book Review]

Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 17:355-356 (1968)
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Rist’s work examines problems not usually treated in depth in books giving a general account of the philosophy of Plotinus: nevertheless a general picture of Plotinus does emerge, and on the whole it is one more consistent with the evidence than the over simplified versions of the rationalist-mystic now too long in vogue. The truth is that as more work is done on Plotinus and Neo-Platonism the sacrosanct simplicities that prevail in all fields of scholarship, will make way for more complex, more plausible interpretations.

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10.5840/philstudies196817065

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