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Peter Adamson, « Making a Virtue of Necessity : Anangkê in Plato and Plotinus », Études platoniciennes, ID : 10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.442
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According to Neoplatonists, the world is in some sense perfect. As Proclus says in his commentary on the Timaeus, it is a “whole of wholes”, lacking in nothing. Of course, the physical world is perfect only according to some standard lower than that of the intelligible world ; still, it attains a perfection appropriate to it. On the other hand, particular things within the physical world are often far from perfect. Neoplatonists had their own intimate experience of this fact : Plotinus had te...