Plotinus is the first Greek philosopher to hold a systematic theory of consciousness. The key feature of his theory is that it involves multiple layers of experience: different layers of consciouness occur in different levels of self. This layering of higher modes of consciousne…
Plotinus, the greatest philosopher of Late Antiquity, discusses at length a first principle of reality - the One - which, he tells us, cannot be expressed in words or grasped in thought. How and why, then, does Plotinus write about it at all? This book explores this act of writi…
Explores a central paradox in Plotinus' work: Plotinus writes about the One, which he tells us is ineffable.
