The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night. — Peter Adamson Form Copy Share Image
Soul puts the determination or forms or images of forms, into matter. — Peter Adamson Determination Copy Share Image
“God didn’t create man in His image, rather we create God in our image.” — Peter Adamson God Copy Share Image
Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul. — Peter Adamson Assuming Copy Share Image
Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away. — Peter Adamson Connected Copy Share Image
In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that… — Peter Adamson Eternal Copy Share Image
Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human,… — Peter Adamson Animal Copy Share Image
The forms in intellect are some kind of blueprint or model on which the physical world is based, and something needs to… — Peter Adamson Blueprints Copy Share Image
This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the… — Peter Adamson Important Copy Share Image
Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being… — Peter Adamson Adults Copy Share Image
Once you're in a kind of revealed religious tradition, you wind up having to explain how the things said about God in… — Peter Adamson Bible Copy Share Image
For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers,… — Peter Adamson Associates Copy Share Image
Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind… — Peter Adamson Form Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Als Copy Share Image
Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the… — Peter Adamson Bits Copy Share Image
Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato. — Peter Adamson Plato Copy Share Image
The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from… — Peter Adamson Distraction Copy Share Image
I'm sure that Plotinus wasn't that impressed by the Christians. — Peter Adamson Christian Copy Share Image
Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death. — Peter Adamson Birth Copy Share Image
There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps… — Peter Adamson Form Copy Share Image
This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee… — Peter Adamson Conditions Copy Share Image
The soul is the principle of life, and it's also something much closer to our own awareness and consciousness of our existence… — Peter Adamson Awareness Copy Share Image
In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised… — Peter Adamson Believe Copy Share Image
We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this… — Peter Adamson Form Copy Share Image
If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a… — Peter Adamson Beauty Copy Share Image
When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you… — Peter Adamson Contemplating Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Antiquity Copy Share Image
Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means… — Peter Adamson Causes Copy Share Image
I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the… — Peter Adamson Century Copy Share Image
The idea is that to grasp an idea like equality or justice, you can't look at the equal and just or unjust… — Peter Adamson Different Copy Share Image
Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial… — Peter Adamson Fall Copy Share Image
The soul must be distinct from intellect because even at its best, what the soul does when it's thinking, is it thinks… — Peter Adamson Argument Copy Share Image
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much… — Peter Adamson Abstract Copy Share Image
People often talk about Plotinus' system. The reason they do this is that Plotinus postulated a kind of series or chain of… — Peter Adamson Chains Copy Share Image
If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or… — Peter Adamson Accomplish Copy Share Image
There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with… — Peter Adamson Believe Copy Share Image
In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed… — Peter Adamson Antiquity Copy Share Image
