People often talk about Plotinus' system. The reason they do this is that Plotinus postulated a kind of series or chain of principles, so at the top ….

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….

The soul must be distinct from intellect because even at its best, what the soul does when it's thinking, is it thinks linguistically, it thinks in a….

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

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

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….

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

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….

Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul. So this has important implicati….

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

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

There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them..

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 ….

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

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 ….

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 soul is eternal..

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

What the soul is doing is kind of walking through the forms, and so our experience of thinking isn't normally this kind of pure intuitive insight tha….

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

Soul puts the determination or forms or images of forms, into matter..