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270 AD
Major worksEnneads
The founder of Neoplatonism, a Greek-speaking philosopher whose teachings, gathered by his student in the Enneads, traced all reality back to a single transcendent source called the One. His mystical vision of the soul's ascent toward unity profoundly influenced later pagan, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic thought.
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Episodes and essays that touch on Plotinus.
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