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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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81 Stoic ideas.
82 As Plato said in his Phaedrus, p. 247, Cary, 56.
83 See i. 8.2.
84 See ii. 3.17.
85 See ii. 3.13. Ficinus's translation.
86 A Stoic term.
87 Plato, Timaeus, p. 42, Cary, 17; see also Enn. ii. 3.10. 11, 15, 16.
88 Timaeus, p. 42, 91, Cary, 17, 72, 73.
89 See ii. 3.13.
90 Alcinous, de Doctrina Platonica, 26.
91 Gregory of Nyssa, Catech. Oratio, 7; Dionysius Areopagite, Divine Names, 4.
92 See ii. 3.7.
93 See iii. 2.6.
94 Plato, Timaeus, p. 31c, Cary, 11.
95 See Numenius. 14.
96 Clem. Al. Strom. v. 689.
97 In this book we no longer find detailed study of Plato, Aristotle and the Epicureans, as we did in the works of the Porphyrian period. Well indeed did Plotinos say that without Porphyry's objections he might have had little to say.
98 Porphyry, Principles of the theory of the Intelligibles, 31.
99 Olympiodorus, in Phaedonem, Cousin, Fragments, p. 404.
100 Ib., p. 432.
101 Ib., p. 418.
102 Ib., p. 431.
103 John Philoponus, Comm. in Arist., de Anima, i. 1.
104 See iii. 6.1.
105 By a triple pun, on "nous," "noêsis," and "to noêton."
106 Porphyry, Principles, 32.
107 By a pun.
108 See John i. 4, 9.
109 This anticipates Athanasius's explanations of the divine process.
110 See v. 1.4.
111 Porphyry, Principles, 26.
112 The Eleusynian Mysteries, Hymn to Ceres, 279; see vi. 9.11.
113 See v. 3.14.
114 In this book Plotinos harks back to the first book he had written, i. 6, to Plato's Banquet and Cratylos. Porphyry later agreed with some of it. Like St. John, Plotinos returns to God as love, in his old age. His former book had also been a re-statement of earlier thoughts.
115 See iii. 5.6.
116 See i. 6.2, 3.
117 See i. 6.3, 7.
118 Plato, Banquet, p. 206–208, Cary, 31, 32.
119 Plato, Banquet, p. 210, Cary, 34, sqq.
120 Porphyry, Biography of Plotinos, 15.