Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 2023
Ota Gál
Pages 143-167
Beyond Unified Multiplicity
Beauty and the Illumination by the Good in Plotinus
This article traces the limits of the understanding of beauty as unified multiplicity in Plotinus’ Enneads vi 2 and vi 6. These treatises can be read as insisting on the significance of multiplicity for beauty and as implying a distinction between the illuminated and the unilluminated beauty of Intellect. In treatise vi 7, this distinction is made explicit and a deeper understanding of beauty as the manifestation of the Good in Intellect is introduced.