Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul.… — Peter Adamson Body 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
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
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
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
I'm sure that Plotinus wasn't that impressed by the Christians. — Peter Adamson Christian 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
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
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
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
Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato. — Peter Adamson Plato 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
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
What the soul is doing is kind of walking through the forms, and so our experience of thinking isn't normally this kind… — Peter Adamson Form 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
Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding… — Peter Adamson Circles 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
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
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
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
