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James Wilberding, « Intelligible Kinds and Natural Kinds in Plotinus », Études platoniciennes, ID : 10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.459
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Plotinus repeatedly emphasizes that the sensible world is the best possible world. This is supposed to follow from his etiological account of the world’s perpetual generation: As the automatic product of higher principles, the sensible world is simply another instantiation of intelligible principles, albeit embedded at a lower level in matter. This is meant to apply above all to the biological activity of nature, as each kind of living thing in the sensible world is supposed by Plotinus to co...