Abstract
At first sight Plotinus’ philosophy is full of contradictions. The same entity will appear with different characteristics in different treatises, or even within the same chapter. These characteristics will change as it rises or falls through the levels of reality,1 and it is sometimes difficult to sec exactly where a given being is really to be placed. This is illustrated by the problems about the identity of man to which Plotinus repeatedly refers.
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© 1971 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Blumenthal, H.J. (1971). Introduction. In: Plotinus’ Psychology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2989-6_1
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