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PHILOSOPHER

Plotinus

203 - 270

Plotinus

Plotinus (; Greek: Πλωτῖνος, Plōtînos; c. 204/5 – 270 CE) was a Greek Platonist philosopher, born and raised in Roman Egypt. Plotinus is regarded by modern scholarship as the founder of Neoplatonism. His teacher was the self-taught philosopher Ammonius Saccas, who belonged to the Platonic tradition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Plotinus has received more than 1,504,366 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia. Plotinus is the 56th most popular philosopher (down from 51st in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Philosopher.

Plotinus is most famous for his work "Enneads," which is a collection of nine books that are organized into three groups. The first group is called "The One" and the second group is called "The Soul." The third group is called "The World." Plotinus argues that the world is a reflection of the soul, which is a reflection of the One.

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70
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14.40
Effective Languages (L*)
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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Plotinus ranks 56 out of 1,081. Before him are Zeno of Elea, Empedocles, Karl Popper, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, and Lucretius. After him are Henri Bergson, Anaxagoras, Herbert Spencer, Mikhail Bakunin, Edmund Husserl, and Gorgias.

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Karl Popper
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Hannah Arendt
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Plotinus
203 - 270
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 56
Henri Bergson
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Anaxagoras
500 BC - 428 BC
HPI: 78.41
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Herbert Spencer
1820 - 1903
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Mikhail Bakunin
1814 - 1876
HPI: 77.80
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Edmund Husserl
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HPI: 77.55
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 203, Plotinus ranks 1. After him is Elagabalus. Among people deceased in 270, Plotinus ranks 1. After him are Claudius Gothicus, Shapur I, Gregory Thaumaturgus, Quintillus, and Jungcheon of Goguryeo.