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  • 6 - Plotinus on Number

  • from Part II - Metaphysics and Epistemology
  • Edited by Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto, James Wilberding, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
    Published online:
    25 May 2022
    Print publication:
    02 June 2022, pp 136-162

  • Summary

    The concept of number is treated at some length in Ennead 6.6, though it is less conspicuous in the rest of the Enneads. This may explain why it does not usually make the headlines of Plotinus’ metaphysics and epistemology – the focus of this part of the Companion – nor of their concomitant scholarship.1 The specialized studies of the concept of number in Neoplatonism in the last twenty years, however, have revealed the essential role of number in the Neoplatonic model of the universe.2 This chapter demonstrates that, below each headline in the Enneads, number writes the story.