• Plotinus intensely disliked the editorial process, and turned the task to Porphyry, who polished and edited them into their modern form.
  • Plotinus’ philosophy represents one of the supreme intellectual achievements of the period that has come to be called “Late Antiquity”.
  • Plotinus, Enneadlar (Seçmeler) Çev. Zeki Özcan, Asa Kitabevi, Bursa, 1996. Zerrin Kurtoğlu, Plotinos'un Aşk Kuramı, Gündoğan Yayınları, 1996.
  • This article begins by explaining the context for Plotinus’ philosophy, along with some of the difficulties with placing Plotinus in the history of philosophy.
  • Plotinus was far from Rome when he set out on his philosophical career. He lived in Egypt, at the time a province of the Roman Empire.
  • Milattan sonra 204 ila 264 yılları arasında yaşamış olan Plotinus, Platon’un metafiziğini, biraz daha farklı bir versiyon içinde yeniden öne sürmüş ve yorumlamıştır.
  • Porphyry also bequeathed a biography of relevance. The well known conflict of Plotinus with a Gnostic trend admits of various complexities.
  • Nothing is known of the life of Plotinus until the age of twenty-seven, when he became seriously interested in philosophy as a mode of knowing and a way of life.
  • Plotinus (204/5 – 270 C.E.), is generally regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism. He is one of the most influential philosophers in antiquity after Plato and Aristotle.
  • Already a student of philosophy, Plotinus devoted himself fully to the discipline, absorbing Plato's Dialogues and his teacher's commentary on them.