NDPR Anne Sheppard, trans. and ed. Plotinus. Ennead I 8. On the Nature and Source of Evil. Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary

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Anne Sheppard (trans. and ed.), Plotinus. Ennead I 8. On the Nature and Source of Evil. Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary, Parmenides Publishing, 2025, $42.00 (pbk) ISBN 9798988320128.

Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson, University of Toronto

This volume is the eighteenth in an ongoing series of publications dating back to 2013 under the general editorial direction of John Dillon and Andrew Smith aimed at translations of and commentaries on all the treatises in Plotinus’s Enneads.[1] The treatise I 8 is a chronologically late treatise by Plotinus, number 51, as reported by Porphyry. This fact suggests that we should be prepared to discover in the treatise a highly complex background of assumptions and arguments resulting from the many years of research, teaching, and writing that preceded, to say nothing of some 800 years or so of philosophical work...