And among its greatest members, such as Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, the religious influence of the East was distinctly apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern] Reference

Plotinus also argues that ugliness is nonexistent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

Plotinus 'refutation of this thesis goes as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY] Reference

Briefly, Plotinus rethinks the conception of mimesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

Plotinus (third century), the first and greatest of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEO-PLATONISM] Reference

Jamblichus, or Plotinus, or reciting Homer in his Greek, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Plotinus 'similar figure of the net in the sea; Enneads, IV, 3: 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

He apparently worked out a system very much like that of Plotinus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

This, this is the wisdom of the sages, the secret of Plotinus and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Substance of a Dream] Reference

It was founded by Plotinus, and was for three centuries a formidable rival to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

Its religious origins are obvious in the idealistic tradition from Plotinus to.    From Wordnik.com.  [MARXISM] Reference

This was in agreement with the beliefs of Plotinus and his medieval followers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Plotinus says, Zeus himself, as he would be, if he chose to appear to human eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference

Finally, Plotinus often uses myths as a medium for the expression of his thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTH IN ANTIQUITY] Reference

At the end of antiquity Plotinus undertook once again the task of classifying arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS] Reference

Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus, and the favor of the Emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference

The context suggests that it is the purpose of Plotinus to refute a widely held tenet.    From Wordnik.com.  [SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY] Reference

Plotinus with his dualistic conception: beauty consists in form but not exclusively in form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Plotinus is a mystic, then, though not at all in the sense in which the term is often misused.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Compare the notions of the initiative of such movements in the soul in Plotinus and Augustine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

Beauty therefore, as Plotinus said, lies not only in proportions but in the luster of things as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

If so, it seems odd that among the most militant opponents of Gnosticism were Plotinus and his disciples.    From Wordnik.com.  [GNOSTICISM] Reference

The horrible story of Uranus, Kronos, and Zeus plays the role of symbolizing the three hypostases of Plotinus!.    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTH IN ANTIQUITY] Reference

In the hands of Plotinus it leads to a mystical metaphysic with a divine One as the culmination of the scale of being.    From Wordnik.com.  [APPEARANCE AND REALITY] Reference

Plotinus was a philosopher in the third century who studied the different sources of knowledge, wisdom, and creativity.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Dotcom" Turns 25: My Predictions for What Comes Next] Reference

The thorny problem, why or how perfect Deity should be manifested in such an imper - fect world, was not evaded by Plotinus.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference

Timæus of Locris, one of the masters of Plotinus, hinted at the existence of a more profound doctrine in the following words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference

In this sense Plotinus gave to a certain sublime degree of virtue the name of "virtue of the purified soul" (cf. I-II, Q. 61, A. 5).    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

Christianity with the philosophy of Plato, without the pantheistic implications which had developed in the emanation theory of Plotinus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

Between Plato and Plotinus, Greek philosophers with one notable exception exalted reason as the mark of the supreme and perfect reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference

Wishes me to bring my Shakspeare along; -- it's a wonder he had not said Plotinus, or Jacob Böhme's 'Aurora'; they're more in his style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference