Blueprints Quote by 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 and shape the matter in accordance with that blueprint. What does that is soul.”

Peter Adamson

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

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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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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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The body distracts your soul.

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