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The One

In Plotinus, the absolutely simple first principle beyond being and thought, source of all that is.

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

The One, to hen, is Plotinus’s name for the first principle: utterly simple, beyond being, intellect and description, the source from which all things flow and to which the soul longs to return. He also calls it the Good. Union with it, henōsis, is the goal of the philosophical life.