Plotinus (c. 204–270) is one of the most outstanding thinkers, the only heir of the great Plato, this “god of philosophers.” The creator of his own original system of philosophy, life and worldview, Plotinus is widely known to the Russian thinking reader, but is also practically unknown to him. This book is intended to rediscover the very topic of Plotinus.

Translation from ancient Greek and afterword by T.G. Sidasha.

The first five treatises of the sixth Ennead of the great Plotinus, included in this volume, represent a presentation of logic and ontology in the system of the founder of Neoplatonism. This is the second largest ancient work of antiquity after Aristotle’s Organon, exploring the a priori contents of the mind in connection with ontological structures. What is especially valuable in these treatises is that this teaching contains a polemic with the Stoic and Peripatetic methodologies that had already been established by the time of Plotinus.

In the “Afterword” there is a comparative analysis of Plotinus’ Trinitarian theology and the Christian teaching about St. Trinity.

Contents: About the genera of things. The first treatise is about the kinds of things. Treatise two: On the types of things. The third treatise is about the fact that a single identical existence exists everywhere and at once. The first treatise is about the fact that a single identical existence exists everywhere and at once. Treatise two T.G. Sidash. Neoplatonism and Christianity