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 [[I.3 [20]]]. On Dialectic\\ [[I.3 [20]]]. On Dialectic\\
 I 4 [46]. On Well-Being\\ I 4 [46]. On Well-Being\\
-I 5 [36]. On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time\\ +[[I.5 [36]]]. On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time\\
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-Synopsis +
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-1. Well-being is of the present.\\ +
-2. The propensity for life and actualization always concerns +
-the present.\\ +
-3. The measure of well-being is not influenced by the prolongation of contemplation,\\ +
-4. nor of pleasure,\\ +
-5. nor of itself.\\ +
-6. Ill-being may increase in time, but not so well-being.\\ +
-7. Well-being transcends time.\\ +
-8-9. Memory has no effect on it.\\ +
-10. Virtuous actions are the result, not the cause, of well-being. +
 I 6 [1]. On Beauty\\ I 6 [1]. On Beauty\\
 I 7 [54]. On the Primal Good and the Other Goods\\ I 7 [54]. On the Primal Good and the Other Goods\\
 I 8 [51]. On What Are and Whence Come Evils\\ I 8 [51]. On What Are and Whence Come Evils\\
-I 9 [16]. On Going out of the Body +[[I.9 [16]]]. On Going out of the Body
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-Synopsis +
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-//Theory//: The soul must not be withdrawn violently, but must be allowed to divest itself of the body naturally.\\ +
-//Problems and solutions//:\\ +
-Violent suicide is not without passion.\\ +
-Drugs are perhaps damaging to the soul.\\ +
-Suicide deprives man of the possibility of progress.+
  
 __Second Ennead__ __Second Ennead__
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 III 6 [26]. On the Impassibility of Things without Body\\ III 6 [26]. On the Impassibility of Things without Body\\
 III 7 [45]. On Eternity and Time\\ III 7 [45]. On Eternity and Time\\
-III 8 [30]. On Nature and Contemplation and the One\\ +[[III.8 [30]]]. On Nature and Contemplation and the One\\
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-Synopsis +
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-1. Inaugural proposition: Everything aspires to contemplation.\\ +
-Problem: How does Nature contemplate?\\ +
-2. Nature as an unmoved and creative rational formative principle.\\ +
-3. This //logos// is contemplative in character.\\ +
-4. Hence Nature creates as it contemplates,\\ +
-and action is a weakened form of contemplation.\\ +
-5. The soul: each one of the different levels of its life is also a level of contemplation.\\ +
-6. Action and reasoning in relation to contemplation.\\ +
-7. Summary.\\ +
-8. Contemplation in its primary form: the Intellect.\\ +
-It is unitary, but also inherently multiple.\\ +
-9. The highest principle: the One.\\ +
-It transcends multiplicity of any kind.\\ +
-It can only be grasped by that within us which is like it.\\ +
-It is present in all things, as cause of all things.\\ +
-10. The One as universal possibility.\\ +
-11. As the ultimate end to which all things aspire, the One is also the supreme Good. +
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-Introduction +
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-As R. Harder has persuasively shown, the present "treatise" is in substance the first section of a far lengthier work, composed by P. around 265 CE with the primary aim of drawing up against those Gnostic apocalyptic treatises that were circulating at the time in Rome the "sublime mysteries" of the true philosophy, and more particularly of authentic Platonism. +
 III 9 [13]. Various Considerations III 9 [13]. Various Considerations
  
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