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

- Peter Adamson

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…

- Peter Adamson

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 …

- Peter Adamson

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…

- Peter Adamson

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

- Peter Adamson

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…

- Peter Adamson

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…

- Peter Adamson

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

- Peter Adamson

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

- Peter Adamson