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Plotinus

Ennead III.7: Time and Eternity

c. 250–270

Plotinus on αἰών as the life of true Being, whole at once, set against time—the sense cited in the aion lexicon beside the Timaeus.

Translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page

English translation by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page. Public domain. Digital text via the Internet Classics Archive.

Contents

• Time and Eternity
• 1. §1
• 2. §2
• 3. §3
• 4. §4
• 5. §5
• 6. §6
• 7. §7
• 8. §8
• 9. §9
• 10. §10
• 11. §11
• 12. §12
• 13. §13