This is the treatise On Beauty from the first Ennead, in which Plotinus asks what makes bodies, actions and souls beautiful and answers that beauty is the presence of form and, at last, of the Good. Thomas Taylor’s translation, with his introduction on reading Greek philosophy, follows the soul as it turns from the whirl of the senses toward the beauty within.
A short classic of ancient aesthetics that shaped Renaissance and Romantic ideas of beauty. Download the free EPUB.