The Collected Writings of Plotinus (The Thomas Taylor Series, Volume III)

1787. Thomas Taylor was one of the outstanding translators of the philosophical writings of the Greeks and Romans, and also published several original works on philosophy and mathematics. Many of his important contributions in these fields have been long out-of-print and are extremely difficult to obtain, having been issued in very small editions. Most of Taylor's translations have an archaic elegance which preserves the spirit of the older authors in a manner not evident in more recent translations. Taylor also added notes and commentaries which give valuable insight into the essential meaning often obscure in the actual text. Contains all the known translations of the Enneads by Thomas Taylor. Plotinus stands as the great reviver of Platonism as a living philosophy, and a true basis for real mystical development. From his inspiration and work arose a line of profound thinkers, whose works remain a high-water mark in the religious and philosophical achievements of humanity. This volume includes 27 treatises on such subjects as: The Good or The One; The Immortality of the Soul; Providence; Dialectic; Virtues; Felicity; Eternity and Time; The Nature and Origin of Evil; and Intellect, Ideas and Being. See the many other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.