1 Arist. Physics, iii. 7.
2 Or, the finished, the boundary, the Gnostic Horos.
3 Plato, Philebus, 24; Cary, 37.
4 Plato, Timaeus, p. 52; Cary, 26.
5 See vi. 3.13.
6 See Plato, Philebus, Cary, 40; see ii. 4.11.
7 See vi. 3.27.
8 See ii. 4.10.
9 Timaeus, 39; Cary, 14; see iii. 7.11.
10 Parmenides, 144; Cary, 37.
11 Possibly a reference to Numenius' book thereon.
12 Aristotle, Met. i. 5; Jamblichus, de Vita. Pyth. 28.150; and 29.162; found in their oath; also Numenius, 60.
13 See vi. 2.7.
14 See vi. 6.5.
15 As thought Plato and Aristotle combined, see Ravaisson, Essay, ii. 407.
16 Atheneus, xii. 546; see i. 6.4.
17 Plato, Timaeus, 39e, Cary, 15.
18 See iii. 8.7.
19 As thought the Pythagoreans; see Sextus Empiricus, Hypotyposes Pyrrh. 3.18, p. 165.
20 Olympiodorus, Comm. I Alcibiades, x. p. 95; Arist. Met., i. 5; Sextus Emp., H. P., iii. 152; Porphyry; Vit. Pyth., 48.
21 As said Theon of Smyrna, of the Pythagoreans, ii. p. 23; Jamblichus, Vit. Porph. 28.150; 29.162.
22 See i. 8.2.
23 Met. x. 2; iv. 2; v.
24 Peripatetic commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics, which was used as a text-book in Plotinos's school.
25 See end of Sec. 13.
26 See vi. 1.6.
27 See Aristotle, Categories, ii. 6.
28 As Aristotle thought, Met. x. 2.
29 See vi. 9.2.
30 Met. x. 1.
31 The Numenian secret name of the divinity, fr. 20.
32 Met. xiii. 7.
33 Aristotle, Met. x. 2.
34 Aristotle, Metaph. xiii. 7.
35 See iv. 8.3.
36 See iv. 4.5.
37 See v. 7.3.
38 See vi. 3.13.
39 See vi. 9.1.
40 See Timaeus, 35; Cary, 12. Jamblichus, On the Soul, 2; Macrobius, Dream of Scipio, i. 5.
41 See Jamblichus, About Common Knowledge of Mathematics.
42 See Sec. 2.
43 Macrobius, Dream of Scipio, 1.5.
44 Parmenides quoted in Plato's Theataetus, 180 E. Jowett, iii. 383.
45 Plato, Timaeus, 56; Cary, 30.
46 In the Timaeus, 39; Cary, 14.
47 Parmenides, quoted by Plato, in the Sophists, 244; Cary, 61.
48 In Plato's Theataetus, 180; Jowett Tr. iii. 383.
49 Evidently Porphyry had advanced new objections that demanded an addition to the former book on the theory of vision; see iv. 5.
50 As thought the Stoics.
51 Like Aristotle, de Sensu et Sensili, 2.
52 iv. 5.
53 These ten disjointed reflections on happiness remind us of Porphyry's questioning habit, without which, Plotinos said, he might have had nothing to write; see Biography, 13.
54 As Epicurus thought the divinities alone enjoyed perfect happiness, Diog. Laert. x. 121.
55 See Aristotle, Nic. Ethics, 1.10.
56 See Cicero, de Finibus, ii. 27–29.
57 See iii. 7.
58 Plutarch, Dogm. Philos. i. 17; Stob. Eclog. i. 18.
59 Arist. Topic. iv. 2; de Gener. et Cor. i. 10; Ravaisson, EMA, i. 422.
60 As did Alexander of Aphrodisias, in his treatise on "Mixture;" Ravaisson, EMA, ii. 297.
61 Stob. Eclog. i. 18.
62 See Plutarch, "Whether Wickedness Renders One Unhappy."
63 As said Numenius, 44.
64 See vi. 7. This is another proof of the chronological order, as vi. 7 follows this book.
65 Bouillet explains that in this book Plotinos summated all that Plato had to say of the Ideas and of their dependence on the Good, in the Timaeus, Philebus, Phaedrus, the Republic, the Banquet, and the Alcibiades; correcting this summary by the reflections of Aristotle, in Met. xii. But Plotinos advances beyond both Plato and Aristotle in going beyond Intelligence to the supreme Good. (See Sec. 37.) This treatise might well have been written at the instigation of Porphyry, who desired to understand Plotinos's views on this great subject.
66 The famous Philonic distinction between "ho theos," and "theos."
67 Plato, Timaeus, p. 45, Cary, 19.
68 See iii. 2.
69 See iii. 2.1.
70 Plato's Timaeus, pp. 30–40, Cary, 10–15.
71 An Aristotelian idea, from Met. vii. 1.
72 Aristotle, Met. vii. 17.
73 Met. vii. 1.
74 Met. vii. 7.
75 Aristotle, Met. v. 8.
76 Met. 1.3.
77 See ii. 9.3.
78 Aristotle, de Anima, ii. 2; Met. vii. 17.
79 Porphyry, Of the Faculties of the Soul, fr. 5.
80 See ii. 5.3.
81 Aristotle, de Anima, i. 3; ii. 2–4.
82 Plato, I Alcibiades, p. 130, Cary, 52.
83 See i. 1.3.
84 Bouillet explains this as follows: Discursive reason, which constitutes the real man, begets sensibility, which constitutes the animal; see i. 1.7.
85 See iii. 4.3–6.
86 See iii. 4.6.
87 These demons are higher powers of the human soul.
88 See iv. 3.18.
89 Plato, Timaeus, p. 76, Cary, 54.
90 p. 39, Cary, 15.
91 Plato, Timaeus, p. 77, Cary, 55.
92 See iv. 4.22.
93 Lucretius, v. 1095.
94 Diogenes Laertes, iii. 74.
95 Plato, Timaeus, p. 80, Cary, 61.
96 See iv. 3.18.
97 Plato, Phaedrus, p. 248, Cary, 60; see i. 3.4.
98 See v. 7.
99 See v. 1.9.
100 See i. 8.6, 7.
101 Rep. vi. p. 509, Cary, 19.
102 See v. 1.7.
103 See v. 1.5.
104 See v. 1.7.
105 Plato, Rep. vi. p. 509, Cary, 19.
106 See v. 1.6.
107 See iv. 8.3.
108 See v. 1.4.
109 See v. 1.6.
110 Arist. Nic. Eth. 1.1.
111 See Arist., Met. i. 5.
112 According to Plato's Banquet, p. 206, Cary, 31.
113 See iv. 5.7.
114 See 1.6.
115 Plato, Phaedrus, p. 249, Cary, 63.
116 See v. 1.2.
117 See vi. 7.25.
118 Plato, Philebus, p. 60, Cary, 141; Gorgias, p. 474, Cary, 66.
119 p. 61, Cary, 144.
120 See Met. xii.
121 Met xii. 7.
122 Plato, Rep. vi., p. 505, Cary, 17.
123 According to the proverb, like seeks its like, mentioned by Plato, in his Banquet; p. 195, Cary, 21.
124 Plato, Gorgias, p. 507, Cary, 136.
125 See i. 8.5.
126 Plato, Timaeus, p. 52, Cary, 26.
127 See below, Sec. 32.
128 Plato, Rep. vi., p. 506, Cary 17.
129 As said Plato, Republic vi., p. 508, Cary, 19.
130 See iii. 5.9.
131 In his Philebus, p. 65, Cary, 155.
132 As Plato said, in his Banquet, p. 184, Cary, 12.
133 See i. 6.5.
134 See i. 6.7.
135 As says Plato, in his Banquet, p. 210, Cary, 35.
136 As Plato says, in his Phaedrus, p. 250, Cary, 65.
137 As Plato says, in his Banquet, p. 183, Cary, 11.
138 See i. 6.9.
139 See i. 6.8.
140 As Plato said, in his Banquet, p. 211, Cary, 35.
141 See iii. 5.9.
142 Rep. vi., p. 505, Cary, 16.
143 See iii. 3.6.
144 As thought Plato, in the Banquet, p. 210, Cary, 35.
145 Arist. Met. xii. 9; see v. 1.9.
146 Met. xii. 7.
147 Met. xii. 9.
148 See iv. 6.3.
149 Met. xii. 8.
150 Plato, Rep. vi. p. 509, Cary, 19.
151 Met. xii. 7.
152 See v. 3.10.
153 See vi. 2.7.
154 See v. 3.11.
155 See iii. 9.6.
156 See vi. 5.11.
157 See v. 3.13.
158 Arist. Met. xii. 7.
159 As thought Plato, Rep. vi., p. 508, Cary, 19.
160 See iv. 3.1.
161 Letter ii. 312; Cary, p. 482.
162 See i. 6, end.
163 Numenius, fr. 32.
164 See Numenius, fr. 48.
165 Banquet, p. 211, Cary, 35.
166 As Aristotle asks, Eth. Nic. iii.
167 Arist. Nic. Eth. iii. 1.
168 Eud. Eth. ii. 6.
169 Nic. Eth. iii. 2.
170 Eud. Mor. ii. 9.
171 Nic. Eth. iii. 2.
172 Nic. Eth. iii. 6.
173 Plato, Alcinous, 31; this is opposed by Aristotle, Nic. Eth. iii. 2.6.
174 Aristotle, Eud. Eth. ii. 10.
175 Aristotle, Mor. Magn. i. 32; Nic. Eth. iii. 6.
176 Aristotle, Nic. Eth. iii. 4.
177 Arist. de Anim. iii. 10.
178 de Anim. iii. 9.
179 Magn. Mor. i. 17.
180 de Anim. iii. 9.
181 This Stoic term had already been noticed and ridiculed by Numenius, 2.8, 13; 3.4, 5; Guthrie, Numenius, p. 141. He taught that it was a casual consequence of the synthetic power of the soul (52). Its relation to free-will and responsibility, here considered, had been with Numenius the foundation of the ridicule heaped on Lacydes.
182 Nic. Eth. x. 8.
183 Nic. Eth. x. 7.
184 Plato, Republic, x. p. 617; Cary, 15.
185 In his Phaedo, p. 83; Cary, 74.
186 Such as Strato the Peripatetic, and the Epicureans.
187 Plato, Rep. x. p. 596c; Cary, 1.
188 See Jamblichus's Letter to Macedonius, on Destiny, 5.
189 See iii. 9, end.
190 Numenius, 32.
191 See vi. 7.2.
192 Aris. Met. ix. 1; xii. 9; Nic. Eth. x. 8; Plato Timaeus, p. 52; Cary, 26; Plotinos, Enn. ii. 5.3.
193 This etymology of "providence" applies in English as well as in Greek; see iii. 2.1.
194 Plato, Laws, iv., p. 716; Cary, 8.
195 Arist. Met. xii. 7.
196 See iii. 8.9.
197 In his Cratylos, p. 419; Cary, 76.
198 See iii. 9, end.
199 As said Plato in the Timaeus, p. 42; Cary, 18; see Numenius, 10, 32.
200 In this book Plotinos uses synonymously the "Heaven," the "World," the "Universal Organism or Animal," the "All" (or universe), and the "Whole" (or Totality). This book as it were completes the former one on the Ideas and the Divinity, thus studying the three principles (Soul, Intelligence and Good) cosmologically. We thus have here another proof of the chronological order. In it Plotinos defends Plato's doctrine against Aristotle's objection in de Anima i. 3.