/lit/ - Literature

Just read it and I don't really get the point. Redditors say it's good because it depicts the sinister evils that humanity is capable of and how committing these acts degrade their morality; I did get hints of this, but the book is filled with overly descriptive language that detracts from the main themes.

I like philip glass but man was this an awful movie

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Plotinus also contradicts himself when he says that one can only attain to the realm of the eternal Ideas and he warns against trying to go further but then elsewhere he also talks about complete union with the One such that there is no distinction or multiplicity left; and he also refers to the soul as hypernoetic or beyond mind which is supposed to only refer to the One. I believe it is because the Enneads span a long portion of his life and so they document his changing ideas and positions over the course of his life, i.e. it's not one coherent and completely internally-consistent metaphysical framework which is why most of the later Neoplatonists draw from it while also critiquing its holes.