With the growth of interest in later Greek philosophy, the
importance of Plotinus (AD 205-270) as a seminal influence on later
thinkers, both pagan and Christian, is being increasingly
recognized. The Enneads have been readily available for some time,
both in Greek and in English translation, and there is no shortage
of scholarly writing on the Enneads in general, and on particular
aspects of Plotinus' thought. However, apart from Michael
Atkinson's translation and commentary on Ennead V.1 (Clarendon
Press, 1985), there has been no major commentary in English on any
single treatise. Plotinus' Greek is notoriously obscure, and mere
translation often sheds little light. Barrie Fleet's translation
and commentary on Ennead III.6 elucidates the text of a major
treatise in which Plotinus uses the concept of impassivity to shed
light on three questions of importance to Platonists: the nature of
change in the human soul; its analogue in the Sensible World; and
the nature of Matter. Dr Fleet shows how texts of Plato and
Aristotle, and Hellenistic commentaries on them, were central to
the seminars held in Rome under the leadership of Plotinus. This
treatise is the outcome of one such seminar. All Greek quotations
in the commentary are translated into English, and all Greek terms
are either translated or transliterated, making this edition fully
accessible to readers with or without Greek.
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