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Are there other works I should read before reading The Enneads? Or should I just jump right into it?

Should I go to college if I want to study philosophy?

Does Plotinus ever address the problem of evil in any of his WRITINGS? If so, could someone tell me in which of his works he addresses it in so I could READ it for myself?

Did Plotinus ever address the problem of evil? What was his take on it?

Are there any good book that fairly compare and contrast a Christian view of the world with a pagan one? (neo or old)

*butchers Plato and falsely makes him into a narcissistic crypto-Buddhist*

How do I into Neoplatonism?

>>17628265
Why don't you do it then?

>>16882052
>There is but one God
Wrong. The book contradicts this itself by saying it's the source of sourceS.
>the Primal Mind
A mind implies intellection which implies plurality, which means all minds are secondary for something to think has to exist before thought; even if that thought is of itself there's a plurality and therefore not the true Primal (which does not think).
>>16882175
>polytheism is monotheism in the making
Nope. Monotheism and Polytheism are protestant fabrications with no basis in ancient theology, even the midwit Augustine recognized this, one would think the angels should know this.
>identify the self with the universe
Pantheism need no serious refutation anymore, only insults.
>transcendent residential universe
OH look another universe! But how does this work if God is this universe? (Since God is supposedly the highest self and telos and I'm meant to identify with the universe then logically that which I am to identify with, ultimately, is also God.

>>16688024
Nondualism is retarded that's why.

>>16662291
All mankind has the sight, no matter how buried it might be for most.

>>16651305
Schopenhauer, Bergson, Emerson, Heidegger—whom artists adore/d—all found their basis is Plato and Plotinus.

Thought is never not in some matter.

>>16543578
>Occultist explicitly encourage homosexuality

>>16516904
>This object exists “in-itself”
Bitch please, unless you're talking about the forms.
Also get with the times, self knowledge is dual inherently because to think yourself is to realize yourself as an object.
All real objects are subjects, thus you can only ever truly know another, objects in becoming are phantoms not real particulars.

>>16198651

>…it is said, by Plotinus himself, that he was breastfed until the age of eight. When he got thirsty he went to his wet nurse and bared her breasts in order to suck; he finally stopped after she rebuked him harshly.

>>13243707
Why not kill yourself, if you're Gnostics and the world and your imprisonment is evil?

Anyone else in awe at his gnosis? Plotinus discussion thread, post favorite excerpts from the Enneads, maybe talk about Neoplatonism in general, as well as Plotinus’s overlapping with other philosophies and mystical systems.

>We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing, a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use

>Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

Why is he so based bros?

>>10986408
Do yourself a favor and distance yourself from edgelord gnostics who are only looking to make you scared and miserable. It won't be of any help to you.

>>10784075
I believe in the Neoplatonic God, which both the christians and spinoza ripped off