Plotinus
Americannoun
noun
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As with Plotinus, the Hellenistic founder of Neoplatonic philosophy, Viola’s installation proposes memory as a perceptual function that allows a human soul to acknowledge its own existence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2024
Plotinus solved this problem by applying ideas similar to Plato’s theory of forms.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Morgan pointed out that in the thought of Plato, Plotinus and early Christian thinkers like Pseudo-Dionysius, beauty in the ancient world often functioned as a source of spiritual elevation.
From Washington Post • May 3, 2018
There, he wrote Levin, he was “reading nothing more frivolous than Plotinus and Husserl,” and Harry was welcome to join him “if Wellfleet becomes too worldly.”
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2014
I have never, to this day, read a word by Plotinus.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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