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>But one should be aware that Plotinus takes a new step when he also calls the "One" epekeina noeseos (beyond all thinking), and when he takes all being and all thinking too as a pointer into transcendence. In the context of the Republic, in contrast, the good is presented as the unifying one of the many. In other words, the good is articulated precisely in respect to the inner duality and dialetical function of the one which Plotinus' double "beyond" [beyond being (ousia) and beyond thought (noesis) is specifically intended to exclude."