Understanding Plotin
Sébastien Barbara · Thibaut Gress
Jan 2026 · Max Milo · AI-narrated by Cole (from Google)
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Reputedly difficult, the thought of Plotinus (205-270) is the culmination of ancient philosophy. Inspired first and foremost by Platonism, but also by Aristotelianism and Stoicism, it requires the ability to move with ease through the labyrinth of Greek philosophy, which was completed by Neoplatonism. The present work offers a sort of Ariadne's thread for finding one's way through the Plotinian mazes, as outlined in the vigorous dialogues, organized in the form of enneads after his death by his disciple Porphyry. Describing and analyzing the soul's ascent to the One, showing the pitfall of the duality between the knowing and the known, scrutinizing the power but also the limits of the soul, the Enneads are not just abstract metaphysics: they are fully deployed in ethical and aesthetic terrain, the full scope of which is restored here.
Reputedly difficult, the thought of Plotinus (205-270) is the culmination of ancient philosophy. Inspired first and foremost by Platonism, but also by Aristotelianism and Stoicism, it requires the ability to move with ease through the labyrinth of Greek philosophy, which was completed by Neoplato...
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Sébastien Barbara, a specialist in Eastern philosophy and medical ethics, wrote and illustrated Comprendre le Buddha (Max Milo, 2015). Also trained at the École des Beaux-arts de Reims, he illustrated Comprendre Kant (Max Milo, 2017) and Comprendre Herbert Marcuse (2017).
Thibaut Gress, ENS alumnus, agrégé and Doctor of Philosophy, teaches philosophy in Première Supérieure at Blomet. A specialist in Descartes and Neoplatonism, he has published Descartes et la précarité du monde (CNRS), L'œil et l'intelligible (Kimé) and Comprendre Kant (Max Milo, 2017).
Sébastien Barbara, a specialist in Eastern philosophy and medical ethics, wrote and illustrated Comprendre le Buddha (Max Milo, 2015). Also trained at the École des Beaux-arts de Reims, he illustrated Comprendre Kant (Max Milo, 2017) and Comprendre Herbert Marcuse (2017).
Thibaut Gress, ENS alumn...
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