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    "name": "Ennead III — Cosmos, Time, Providence",
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      "title": "III.1 — On Fate",
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      "subtitle": "Causality and the inner freedom",
      "blurb": "On the chain of cosmic causality and the freedom of the soul. Plotinus distinguishes the determinism of bodily existence from the inner freedom of the rational soul, which is not enslaved by external causes."
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      "subtitle": "How divine providence orders the kosmos",
      "blurb": "The first of two long treatises on providence. The kosmos as a whole is a unified providential order; evil within the whole is only apparent disharmony when seen from the part."
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      "subtitle": "The reasons (logoi) that order all events",
      "blurb": "Continues the providence treatise: the rational principles (logoi) immanent in the kosmos order events by their inner necessity, not by external compulsion."
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      "subtitle": "The daemon that follows each soul",
      "blurb": "On the daemon (guardian-spirit) that accompanies each soul: it is the next-higher faculty above the soul's actual life — what the soul is becoming."
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      "subtitle": "Reading Plato's Symposium",
      "blurb": "Plotinus's allegorical reading of Plato's *Symposium*: Aphrodite Ouranios (heavenly Aphrodite) as the soul's love for the Intellectual; Eros as the offspring of Poros and Penia — abundance and need."
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      "subtitle": "Why immaterial beings cannot suffer",
      "blurb": "On the impassivity of soul and matter alike — the immaterial cannot truly be affected. What appears as soul's suffering is actually the embodied compound's affection, not the soul itself."
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      "subtitle": "The great treatise on time",
      "blurb": "Plotinus's signature treatise on time and eternity. Eternity is the life of Intellect; time is the life of Soul, generated when Soul, restless for completion, falls away from the eternal present into successive duration."
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      "subtitle": "All things contemplate",
      "blurb": "The treatise containing the famous doctrine that all things — even Nature itself — contemplate. Nature acts by contemplation: its making is a silent contemplative power overflowing into form."
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      "title": "III.9 — Detached Considerations",
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      "subtitle": "Miscellaneous notes",
      "blurb": "Short collected notes on intellectual and psychological points — fragments and afterthoughts gathered from Plotinus's seminars."
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