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Enneads (Book on Beauty)

Penguin Classics · 1991

Plotinus’s treatise on beauty from the Enneads, the cornerstone of Neoplatonic aesthetics.

Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 1991
Language: English
Print length: 688

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Description

‘On Beauty’ (Ennead I.6) is among Plotinus’s most important texts, tracing beauty to the presence of Form (eidos) in matter and to the soul’s ascent toward the One. It profoundly shaped Christian and Islamic aesthetic thought and later Romanticism.