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Plotinus, Enneads, 6.9.7
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Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

8 results
1. Plato, Theaetetus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2. Cicero, Timaeus, 1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Epictetus, Discourses, 1.14.6, 1.14.12, 2.18.19 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 41.2, 83.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 1.13 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

6. Nag Hammadi, Zostrianos, 130.5-130.9 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

7. Plotinus, Enneads, 1.6, 1.6.2, 2.3.9, 2.9.16, 2.9.18, 3.5.1, 4.3.1, 5.5.1, 5.8.9-5.8.11, 6.7.22, 6.7.34-6.7.36, 6.9.8-6.9.11 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

8. Augustine, Confessions, 7.3 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

7.3. 4. But I also, as yet, although I said and was firmly persuaded, that Thou our Lord, the true God, who made not only our souls but our bodies, and not our souls and bodies alone, but all creatures and all things, were uncontaminable and inconvertible, and in no part mutable: yet understood I not readily and clearly what was the cause of evil. And yet, whatever it was, I perceived that it must be so sought out as not to constrain me by it to believe that the immutable God was mutable, lest I myself should become the thing that I was seeking out. I sought, therefore, for it free from care, certain of the untruthfulness of what these asserted, whom I shunned with my whole heart; for I perceived that through seeking after the origin of evil, they were filled with malice, in that they liked better to think that Your Substance did suffer evil than that their own did commit it. 5. And I directed my attention to discern what I now heard, that free will was the cause of our doing evil, and Your righteous judgment of our suffering it. But I was unable clearly to discern it. So, then, trying to draw the eye of my mind from that pit, I was plunged again therein, and trying often, was as often plunged back again. But this raised me towards Your light, that I knew as well that I had a will as that I had life: when, therefore, I was willing or unwilling to do anything, I was most certain that it was none but myself that was willing and unwilling; and immediately I perceived that there was the cause of my sin. But what I did against my will I saw that I suffered rather than did, and that judged I not to be my fault, but my punishment; whereby, believing You to be most just, I quickly confessed myself to be not unjustly punished. But again I said: Who made me? Was it not my God, who is not only good, but goodness itself? Whence came I then to will to do evil, and to be unwilling to do good, that there might be cause for my just punishment? Who was it that put this in me, and implanted in me the root of bitterness, seeing I was altogether made by my most sweet God? If the devil were the author, whence is that devil? And if he also, by his own perverse will, of a good angel became a devil, whence also was the evil will in him whereby he became a devil, seeing that the angel was made altogether good by that most Good Creator? By these reflections was I again cast down and stifled; yet not plunged into that hell of error (where no man confesses unto You), to think that You allow evil, rather than that man does it.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
antiochus of ascolon, platonist Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 65
ascent literature, visionary/mystical Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 334
attention, prosokhē, prosekhein, attention to own thoughts and actions in stoic self-interrogation Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
augustine, need to look inwards Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
baptism Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 216
beauty, beautiful Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 334
contemplation Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 334
contemplation (theôria) Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
desire Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
epictetus, stoic, god within us Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
eudorus of alexandria, platonist Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 65
father, fatherhood' Albrecht, The Divine Father: Religious and Philosophical Concepts of Divine Parenthood in Antiquity (2014) 378
gnostic, gnosticism Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 334
good, the Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 334
introspection Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
life, contemplative Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
magic Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
marcus aurelius, stoic Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 65
oikeiōsis, unity of mankind Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
one, the Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
ousia Gerson and Wilberding, The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (2022) 191
philosophy, graeco-roman Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 65
platonism, hellenistic Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 65
plotinus, neoplatonist, introspection Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
plotinus, neoplatonist, the inner man Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
plotinus, platonism Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 65
plotinus Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 334; Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74; Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 216
porphyry Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 334
prayer, contemplative Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
prayer, magical (sympathetic) Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
prayer, petitionary Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
rebirth Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 216
self, attachment to self in oikeiōsis Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
self, the inner man Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
seneca, the younger, stoic, god within us Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
sensation Gerson and Wilberding, The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (2022) 191
sethians Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 334; Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 216
soul, conversion of Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
stoics, see under individual stoics, esp. chrysippus, whose views came to be seen already in antiquity as stoic orthodoxy, so that, conversely, views seen as orthodox tended to be ascribed to him, oikeiōsis Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
stoics Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 65
substance Gerson and Wilberding, The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (2022) 191
sympathy (sympatheia) Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
taylor, charles Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
therapy, techniques see esp. Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
therapy Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252
truth Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
voice Dillon and Timotin, Platonic Theories of Prayer (2015) 74
zeno of citium, stoic, hence different conception of freedom from emotion(apatheia) Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 252