Philosophy 1300E Lecture 11: Plotinus
1 Oct 2018
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Plotinus: return to plato and return to ourselves. The goal for the individual soul: education of the soul: the soul" assent. "our soul have forgotten their father god, and though they are portions from the intelligible world, and are entirely of it, are ignorant both of themselves an of it?" (enn. "let us fly to our dear country!" (enn. The goal for philosophy: to leave behind materialism (especially stoicism: every thing is material, soul and god included) conception of immaterial causes, philosophy as a process of both moral and intellectual ascent, materialistic schools: stoics and epicureans. Love of wisdom is a kind of progress; moral and intellectual progress. Ennad 1. 6: plotinus" question and the division into two realms: why do we call beautiful things beautiful, = what makes beautiful things beautiful, two realms: Looking for the cause of the beautiful things. If there are two realms then there is two kinds of love and pleasure.
