In this tractate Plotinus describes several aspects of spiritual illumination (below is one sample): abandoning attachment to form, shape, and intellectual...
Mark Lamarre
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Oct 6, 2001 9:18 pm
589
The passage below, Plotinus deals with a metaphysical conception of virtue, placing it very high indeed in the Intellectual world. We see that there is a...
Mark Lamarre
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Oct 14, 2001 6:22 pm
590
The passage below has many revealing points related to the Plotinian view of psychology, of being and the metaphysical roots of identity. I believe when ...
Mark Lamarre
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Oct 20, 2001 10:07 pm
591
Plotinus seems to be commenting on the Timaeus in the passage below. God is love. 6.8.16. If God is nowhere, then not anywhere has He 'happened to be'; as also...
Mark Lamarre
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Oct 28, 2001 6:27 pm
592
In the passage below, the remark on health reminds one of the original sense of word, realting health to wholeness, hence to unity. The cause of sickness would...
Mark Lamarre
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Nov 3, 2001 11:11 pm
593
6.9.4. 'From none is that Principle absent and yet from all: present, it remains absent save ot those fit to receive, disciplined into some accordance, able to...
Mark Lamarre
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Nov 11, 2001 7:23 pm
594
In the passage below, I find the notion of our fullness of being by aspiring to the infinite striking. It's a sort of paradox in the sense that it implies that...
Mark Lamarre
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Nov 17, 2001 7:34 pm
595
Hello. I am interested in Plotinus' influence on Augustine's thinking with regard to the conception of evil.
Can anyone speak to this?
chobbs
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With this mystical, uplifting, magical passage, I'll be signing off for now; having posted at least one quotation from all 54 treatise'. It was great ...
Mark Lamarre
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Nov 24, 2001 7:32 pm
597
... There's an essay by James J. McEvoy in 'The relationship between neoplatonism & Christianity', Four Courts Press, 1992, Dublin, pp. 165-170) that gives a...
Mark Lamarre
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Nov 25, 2001 7:48 pm
598
... Subject: [neoplatonism] FW: ISNS - Conference on Platonism & Neoplatonism, Univ. of Maine, Orono // June 28-July 1, 2002 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 01:24:10...
What's this? What's my name doing on this program? And what the heck does "kenotic" mean? Well, I'm glad somebody finally told me that I'm speaking at that...
Hi, Edward is joking around again ("yanking your chain" ;-) because they only told him about it two weeks ago. I read his paper - it's excellent! ML On Fri,...
That's good. I'm looking forward to hearing your paper. With every best wish, yours Cosmin Cosmin I. Andron BA, MA (Cluj), PhD cand. Department of Classics ...
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 01:49:17 -0000 "simeonsalus" <simeonsalus@...> ... Hello Simeon, and welcome! There has been no discussion on this forum for quite...
Greetings Friends, Lets see ... it's been a couple of years now since I first put forth my rather fanciful (in the best sense of the word) thesis that Origen...
I've been working with McKenna's translation and would now like to begin in earnest. Edward has recommended Armstrong's translation in the past, and I've been...
andy-k
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Jul 25, 2002 5:29 pm
608
... Hi Andy, Yes, that is the case. Vol. VII contains Enn. VI.6-9. Definitely a worthwhile purchase -- though try to find them used, if you can. It'll save...
Thanks for the confirmation Edward. ... From: Edward Moore <proteus28@...> To: <plotinus@yahoogroups.com> Cc: <plotinus@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday,...
andy-k
andy-k@...
Jul 26, 2002 4:54 am
610
Your totally right, Andy-k: vol VI are Enn VI, treatises 1-5, vol. VII, Enn VI, treatises 6-9. Jose Baracat ... From: andy-k To: plotinus@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Júnior Baracat
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Aug 14, 2002 3:09 pm
611
Dear Mr. Moore, I must congratulate and thank you for your very interesting and instructing message. Nonetheless, if you allow me a humble and respectful...
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:17:32 -0300 =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FAnior_Baracat?= ... Greetings Jose, I am aware of this scholarly opinion and, quite frankly, do not agree ...
Hello, A quick search turned up this section by Porphyry on Origen and Ammonius in Against the Christians: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/porphyry1.html...
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:43:36 +0200, "Stefan Jüngst & Udo Wolf" ... In french we don't have many options besides the edition of E. Brehier. Pierre Hadot is...
Plotinus writes of two kinds of matter -- physical matter which is forever changing, and intelligible matter which is eternal and unchanging (II.4.1-3). ...
andy-k
andy-k@...
Aug 26, 2002 9:23 pm
617
... From: "andy-k" <andy-k@...> To: <plotinus@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 10:28 PM Subject: [plotinus] On Matter <snip> ... devoid...
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