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Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan

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164 As thought Aristotle, de Anim. ii. 7.
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165 As Plato pointed out in his Meno, 80.
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167 A mistaken notion of Plato's, then common; see Matth. 6.23.
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172 This Stoic theory is set forth by Diogenes Laertes in vii. 157.
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173 As thought Aristotle, de Anima, ii. 8.
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175 As thought Aristotle, de Gener. Anim. v. 1.
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177 This book sounds more Numenian or Amelian, than the former three, which seem to have been written to answer questions of Porphyry's.
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179 As thought Aristotle in his Physics, viii.
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183 Children, whose minds are still weak, and cannot understand the theories of speculative sciences exhibited by Nic. Eth. x. 7.
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184 This upper part of the universal Soul is the principal power of the soul; see ii. 3.17.
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186 In his Phaedrus, 272, Cary, 75.
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187 That is, the essence of the known object, a pun on "reason," as in ii. 6.2.
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189 Which is the visible form; see iii. 8.1.
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190 As thought Plato, Banquet, Cary, 31, and Aristotle in Aristotle, de Anima, ii. 4.
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191 This sounds as if it were a quotation from Numenius, though it does not appear in the latter's fragments.
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196 Notice the connection between this thought and ii. 5, written in the same period of his life; see vi. 8.18.
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198 That is, the intelligible matter of ii. 4.3.
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199 As thought Aristotle, in Nic. Eth. i. 7; de Anima, ii. 1.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42931

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