Title: "See Mackenna's Edition of the Enneads"
Product review: It must be noted, first off, that this small pamphlet contains only a small fragment of Plotinus' superlative work, The Enneads. While On Nature, Contemplation and the One remain singularly important as a part of Plotinus' massive body of work, it still stands, nevertheless, that it is difficult to understand the whole of the Alexandrian philosophers thought with merely a portion of his writings. This pamphlet only engenders injustice for both Plotinus and for Thomas Taylor, the worthy translator of this text. For nearly the same price one may find Stephen MacKenna's much more scholarly edition of Plotinus' Enneads, which contains the following: a biographical sketch of Plotinus, an essay concerning the philosophers place in the history of thought, an insightful introduction, Porphyry's life of Plotinus, the preface and finally, The Enneads.
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