Plotinos

Plotinus
Plotinus
Born	c. 204/5 Lycopolis, Egypt, Roman Empire
Died	270 (aged 64–65) Campania, Roman Empire
Era	Ancient philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Neoplatonism
Main interests	Platonism, Metaphysics, Mysticism
Notable ideas	Three principles: the First, the Second, and the Third; Emanationism; Henosis
Influences Ammonius Saccas, Plato, Numenius of Apamea, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and Middle Platonism, Pythagoreanism
Influenced Porphyry, Iamblichus, Julian, Hypatia, Hierocles, Proclus, Damascius, Simplicius, Augustine, Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius, John Scotus Eriugena, al-Kindi, Avicenna, Bonaventure, Gemistus Pletho, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henri Bergson, Arthur Drews, and Christianity, Gnosticism, Renaissance Platonism, Traditionalist School

Plotinus (/plɒˈtaɪnəs/; Greek: Πλωτῖνος; c. 204/5 – 270) was a major Greek-speaking philosopher of the ancient world. In his philosophy there are three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the . His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition. Historians of the 19th century invented the term Neoplatonism and applied it to him and his philosophy which was influential in Late Antiquity. Much of the biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads. His metaphysical writings have inspired centuries of Pagan, Islamic, Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic metaphysicians and mystics.

Porphyry reported that Plotinus was 66 years old when he died in 270, the second year of the reign of the emperor Claudius II, thus giving us the year of his teacher's birth as around 205. Eunapius reported that Plotinus was born in the Deltaic Lycopolis in Egypt, which has led to speculations that he may have been a native Egyptian of Roman,Greek, or Hellenized Egyptian descent.