Hi Folks, Happy New Year - While my mind recovers from the holiday feasts and celebrations, I humbly submit a selection from the first treatise of the 3rd ...
Mark Lamarre
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Jan 3, 2000 6:33 pm
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hey, i just joined this list. I'm interested and want to learn more about this. can anyone suggest a translation; seems like i found the enneads on the...
Chaffin
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Jan 3, 2000 7:41 pm
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... The McKenna translation is readily available on the net. I have a link to it at the plotinus "community" page at Onelist. Here is the URL: ...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Jan 4, 2000 12:36 am
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... Welcome aboard! The translation by Stephen MacKenna can be found at http://classics.mit.edu/index.html along with many other great texts. My personal...
Edward Moore
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Jan 4, 2000 3:44 am
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"... through the non-comprehension of the Infinite by thought, thought is posited as thought, as a posited subjectivity, that is, is posited as self-positing"...
Edward Moore
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Jan 4, 2000 9:46 am
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... Hi kc, welcome aboard. The McKenna translation is also available at: www.spiritweb.org/plotinus/index.html There's a cool site on Neoplatonism at: ...
Mark Lamarre
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Jan 4, 2000 8:10 pm
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'Seeking nothing, possessing nothing, lacking nothing, the One is perfect and, in our metaphor, has overflowed, and its exuberance has produced the new: this...
Mark Lamarre
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Jan 4, 2000 10:43 pm
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thanks to everyone for your responses. I bookmarked the web-site. this weekend i go into the city so i will look around to see what i can find in print. kc ...
Chaffin
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Jan 5, 2000 3:34 am
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V.1. 'Seeking nothing, possessing nothing, lacking nothing, the One is perfect and, in our metaphor, has overflowed, and its exuberance has produced the new:...
Mark Lamarre
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Jan 5, 2000 6:57 pm
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Hello, I have been following this list for a while, and have now decided to participate to the extent that my abilities and my understanding of Plotinus...
BCowan6974@xxx.xxx
Jan 6, 2000 3:39 am
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... Yes! that which is translated by MacKenna of the Golden Stylus as 'Intellectual-Principle' is indeed the Greek nous. My man O'Brien translates it simply...
Edward Moore
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Jan 6, 2000 6:22 am
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Hi Brian, I was the rascal who entitled his recent post _upostasis_. That is a newfangled transliteration of what is commonly rendered 'hypostasis.' It means...
Edward Moore
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Jan 6, 2000 7:14 am
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Plotinus - Reading strategies Having read through the six enneads in order, I found this to be quite challenging at times. Although Porphiry's classification...
Mark Lamarre
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Jan 7, 2000 11:08 pm
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Some say there are nine Muses. How thoughtless! Look at Sappho of Lesbos; she makes a tenth. ~ Plato, Epigrams XVI. ... therefore,...
Edward Moore
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Jan 8, 2000 11:07 am
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Hello, Plotinus wrote at paragraph 3, section 14, tractate 4 of the 1st Ennead (MacKenna & Page translation): 'A powerful frame, a healthy constitution, even a...
BCowan6974@xxx.xxx
Jan 9, 2000 2:42 am
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You may want to check out the "Philokalia" which is a collection of Christian writings from the Eastern church. The connection between neo-Platonism and the...
Chuck Salvo
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Jan 9, 2000 6:32 am
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Greetings to All & Sundry: ... In _Enneads_ I.4.16, we read: "[The Proficient, or 'Sage'] will give to the body all that he sees to be useful and possible, but...
Edward Moore
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Jan 10, 2000 12:21 am
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Hello, ... it ... way ... son ... or ... body; ... Perhaps we are involved here in a question of semantics. My Oxford dictionary defines the ascetic as "one...
BCowan6974@xxx.xxx
Jan 10, 2000 2:24 am
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Tony Beavers requested that I distribute the following to my lists. I don't usually distribute announcements, but I have tried out Noesis and I can attest...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Jan 10, 2000 6:18 am
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Hi, I'm new to the list - heard good things about it ;-). I don't have any proficiency in Plotinian thought, but I thought I'd toss in my two drachmas on this...
Marilynn Lawrence
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Jan 10, 2000 8:18 pm
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Howdy Folks, Regarding the Asceticism question, I'm currently reading a book which deals with this question to a certain degree: it's Porphyry's "On the...
Mark Lamarre
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Jan 10, 2000 11:41 pm
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Greetings to all: Since this list is really on fire these days, I'll keep my weekly Monday Ennead quote short and sweet (A welcome aboard to Marilynn...
Mark Lamarre
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Jan 11, 2000 12:03 am
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Hello, Let me say at the outset that, after some consideration, I would not seriously object to using such terms as "self-discipline" or "temperance" in place...
BCowan6974@xxx.xxx
Jan 11, 2000 2:50 am
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"... the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you...
Edward Moore
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Jan 11, 2000 7:34 am
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'Askesis' in ancient Greek means "forming, training." So in this sense of the word, even somebody who went to the gym to train for the Olympics practiced...
Ken Wolfe
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Jan 11, 2000 4:11 pm
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... ....and so Edward, with his sharpened Mind, in an act of rebellion, cut through the taut cord upon which the extremes dwell, transcending the horos. ...
Marilynn Lawrence
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Jan 11, 2000 11:28 pm
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Hello, At Enneads 1, 4, 15, Plotinus writes (MacKenna & Page trans.): "But suppose two wise men, one of them possessing all that is supposed to be naturally...
BCowan6974@xxx.xxx
Jan 12, 2000 2:44 am
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What is a question but a quest shunned? By leaving open, or dancing around the 'self,' as inscribed by my own self, in my previous post, did I not shun a...
Edward Moore
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Jan 12, 2000 11:34 am
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Hello, I have just created a new mailing-list to discuss anything related to the roman emperor Julian II (the philosopher/the apostate). To subscribe, send an...
julien.courtois@xxxxx...
Jan 13, 2000 9:42 am
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A thunderous greeting to All from 'Ed' Moore! ... I don't think so. Plotinus is saying that "boons" would not "help" to make a flute-player, or _flautist_....
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