
HoP 088 - Simplicity Itself - Plotinus on the One and Intellect
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The right answer is that all these things are mentioned at the beginning of Plotinus's treatise On the One. Unity is a condition of being, and without it an army would just be a bunch of people standing around with lots of weaponry. To qualify as a thing of any kind is to be one thing - armies clearly have less unity than sunflowers.
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