Century Quote by Peter Adamson

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an…

— Peter Adamson

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

The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle,…

— Peter Adamson

The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.

— Peter Adamson

Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but…

— Peter Adamson

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

The forms in intellect are some kind of blueprint or model on which the physical world is based, and something needs to come along…

— Peter Adamson

Once you're in a kind of revealed religious tradition, you wind up having to explain how the things said about God in the Bible…

— Peter Adamson

Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's…

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In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that each person's…

— Peter Adamson

The intellect must be different from the soul.

— Peter Adamson

Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind of representation…

— Peter Adamson