Abstract

In Treatises 1-3 of Enneads, VI, on the genera of being Plotinus first critically discusses the categories of Aristotle and the Stoics. In the next treatise he discloses that intelligible reality entails being, movement, rest, sameness, and otherness—the five gene of which Plato spoke in the Sophist. In the third he elaborates the categories of the sensible universe: ousia, quantity, quality, relation, and movement.