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Ennead VI Books 1 to 5 by Plotinus

Philosophy Audiobooks

CHAPTER

The Properties of Being

Time and place do not seem to be in a subject. Being draws its existence from the intelligible. It may perhaps be objected that we have here indicated the properties of being, but we have not described its nature. Such a request amounts to asking to see what sense being is. But then, are fire and water not beings? Don't list they are. Are they beings merely because they are visible? No. Is it because they contain matter? No. They are beings because they are.

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