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Hermeticism & Neoplatonism

Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision

by Pierre Hadot · Michael Chase (trans.)

A short, luminous study by the French historian of ancient philosophy, reading Plotinus as a guide to a way of life. Hadot follows the themes of the self, love, virtue and gentleness to show how the Enneads aim at inner transformation rather than abstract system-building.

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