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“The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.” quote by Peter Adamson — Download Open image

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

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

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Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

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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,…

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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 you have Scepticism, you have Stoicism, you even have a little bit of Epicureanism. And what happens after Plotinus is that everybody becomes a Neo-Platonist. So if we then go forward to the Islamic world for…

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Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

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

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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…

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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 Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes…

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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…

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The intellect must be different from the soul.

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

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The body distracts your soul.

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

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A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,…

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