There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least….

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it..

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

The idea is that to grasp an idea like equality or justice, you can't look at the equal and just or unjust things in the world around you, you have t….

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

Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is goin….

Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being te….

If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity..

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 or the Qur'an or what….

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato..

When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is co….

Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding a kind of renewed a….

Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much more elevated ….

In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised by t….

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

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

The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder of neo-Plato….

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissensio….

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

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physica….

Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial intellect would see the forms and….