Plotinus

Plotinus (born 205 ce, Lyco, or Lycopolis, Egypt?—died 270, Campania) was an ancient philosopher, the centre of an influential circle of intellectuals and men of letters in 3rd-century Rome, who is regarded by modern scholars as the founder of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy. The only important source for the life of Plotinus is the biography that his disciple and editor Porphyry wrote as a preface to his edition of the writings of his master,...