Indicatively: On Fate, On Providence, On Love, Regarding the Impassibility of the Incorporeal, Eternity and Time, etc.

Plotinus was born in Upper Egypt around 203 AD and grew up in Alexandria. He studied under the Alexandrian philosophy teachers, primarily with the Platonic Ammonius Saccas. Wanting to learn about Eastern thought, he joined the army of Emperor Gordian, who was campaigning in Persia.

When the imperial army was defeated, Plotinus managed to escape, reach Antioch, and subsequently Rome, where he lived until the end of his life. He taught philosophy and gained fame as both a teacher and a moral figure.

Among his students were notable figures of Roman society - even the emperor Gallienus. His dream of founding a city in Campania, named Platonopolis, governed according to Platonic ideals, was undermined by the imperial counselors.

He began to write when he was already 49 years old. He noted down his philosophical developments on paper without a second reading, without corrections, and often without interrupting his discussions with his students.

Among the latter, Porphyry took on the task of literary editor and publisher of his teacher’s work, dividing it into 6 books of 9 treatises, which he named the 'Enneads'.

Plotinus, one of the last great representatives of philosophical discourse, died in 270 AD in Campania.