Ennead III.6 On the Impassivity of the Bodiless [Hardcover]

Plotinus (c. AD 205-270) can be regarded as the greatest Greek philosopher of late Antiquity, and as the father of Neoplatonism. HisEnneads( the nines ) are now recognized as seminal works in the development of Western thought. This book is the only detailed scholarly commentary available on this part of Plotinus's work, and should be invaluable to all scholars interested in ancient philosophy and early Christian theology. All Greek in the commentary is translated.

Fleet has done a quite commendable job in translating Plotinus's very difficult Greek, and all Greek in his useful commentary is translated or transliterated. His commentary shows that Plotinus was primarily a Platonist who expounded Plato's doctrines some seven centuries later. In sum, this is not only one of the few English commentaries on any single treatise of Plotinus, but it is an informed and informative translation. --Religious Studies Review

[Fleet] provides a highly reliable guide through the obscurities of Plotinus' argument,...a fine piece of scholarship. Anyone wishing to understand iii 6 will find it of great value. --Ancient Philosophy