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      "subtitle": "Where is the human being located in the soul?",
      "blurb": "Plotinus distinguishes the unaffected higher soul from the lower soul that animates the living body — and asks where in this duality the genuine self resides."
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      "subtitle": "Civic virtues and the purifying virtues",
      "blurb": "On the ladder of virtue: the civic virtues that order the soul in the world, and the purifying virtues by which it returns to the divine — Plotinus's foundational ethical schema."
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      "subtitle": "The philosophic ascent",
      "blurb": "On dialectic as the method of philosophic ascent — the divine art that orders the soul's recognition of Being and prepares it for the vision of the Good."
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      "subtitle": "Eudaimonia for the embodied sage",
      "blurb": "Plotinus's response to Aristotle and the Stoics: happiness is the actuality of intellectual life, untouched by bodily fortune; the sage remains happy on the rack."
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      "subtitle": "The atemporal nature of beatitude",
      "blurb": "Happiness, being a state of the soul's intellectual actuality, does not increase by mere duration; it belongs to the timeless present of intellectual vision."
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      "subtitle": "The soul's recognition of the supersensible",
      "blurb": "The most famous and influential treatise of antiquity on beauty. Beauty as the soul's recognition of the Form within matter — and the inward turn (the great image of the inner sculptor) by which the soul ascends toward the source of all beauty."
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      "subtitle": "The Good as source",
      "blurb": "The Good is the source from which all goods derive; all beings desire it because all beings derive their being from it."
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      "subtitle": "Evil as privation; matter as the substrate",
      "blurb": "Plotinus's theodicy. Evil is the absence of form, the privation of the Good; matter, as the boundary at which the radiance fails, is its ultimate seat."
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      "subtitle": "On the philosophic departure from life",
      "blurb": "On suicide: the soul should not violently depart from the body before its time, but await the appointed release. The shortest treatise of the Enneads."
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