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LECTURE XXII CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS

LECTURES XX, XXI ETHICS, RELIGION, AND ESTHETICS

LECTURES XVII-XIX THE ABSOLUTE

The paths of Goodness, Truth, and Beauty all lead up the hill of the Lord. Plotinus shows us all three.

LECTURES XIV-XVI THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

LECTURES XII, XIII THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

LECTURES IX, X, XI THE SOUL

The Orphics were the first to teach that the Soul of man is 'fallen ' — 'an exile from God and a wanderer.' Their doctrine of a multitude of immortal souls broke up the older doctrine that Soul generically is the active manifestation of one spiritual Being. The Orphic doctrine involved a theodicy. Plotinus thus inherited a double tradition — that which regarded Soul as analogous to the ' Wisdom ' of later Jewish literature, and that which thought not of Soul, but of souls on pilgrimage. He attempts to combine the best of both.

LECTURES VI, VII, VIII THE WORLD OF SENSE

LECTURES IV, V THE FORERUNNERS OF PLOTINUS

LECTURES II, III THE THIRD CENTURY

Plotinus is the one great genius in an age singularly barren of greatness. It was a dismal and pessimistic age, when civilisation seemed to be stricken with mortal sickness. And though Plotinus deliberately detaches himself from current affairs, the great man always gives voice to the deepest thought of his own time, and cannot be understood apart from his historical setting.

LECTURE I INTRODUCTORY