He went with the Emperor Gordian to Persia in order to learn eastern philos
He went with the Emperor Gordian to Persia in order to learn eastern philosophy, but ended up fleeing for his life to Antioch in a failed military campaign. What principally separated him from his predecessor was his belief in a principle higher than the world soul, or nous. He taught the utter transcendence of a God figure in a more extreme form than the famous idealism of his predecessor. His works were compiled by his student Porphyry into his six famous Enneads. FTP, identify this 3rd century CE philosopher and founder of Neo-Platonism.
He went with the Emperor Gordian to Persia in order to learn eastern philosophy, but ended up fleeing for his life to Antioch in a failed military campaign.
{Plotinus}