/lit/ - Literature

The West begins west of the Tartarus and Caspian sea, and north of the first Nile Cataract; with the desert sand of Arabia and Saharas as the other boundaries and the Ural mountain the north eastern limit.

>Plato is revelation
>With these three words Plotinus silenced all discourse forever.

>>16335555
Exactly what democritus said.
Work hard and you might find joy, don't abd there'll be only pain. There'll be pain either way, but one way will be only pain
Also. Based. Checked.

>>16322695
Olympiodorus, trying to not disrespect him, was a follower of Ammonius, or Alexandrian Platonism, which was the true precursor to Scholasticism. He in his concessions to save philosophy, which he did up until Islam forced them out of Egypt, can easily be seen as a sacrifice of the lower for higher in a time of necessity. He and Ammonius were allowed to practically preach by not breaching through depersonalization of the gods, while this eludes the christian (and actually means nothing to a Platonist since there's no such thing as impersonal to us) it then opened up the critique of personalism vs "abstract forces" (again—a false dichotomy in truth) which is so prevalent today. Olympiodorus saying that Athena is the mere mythologizing "mere" expression of God's Intellect (aka Metis). Is saying nothing to us, since there's no such thing as a real distinction that isn't also a contemplator, "everything is contemplation" the irony is Christians wailing about muh personal God is a only a problem to them. He and It is the same word in Greek, all real itnesses are intellects, even if they're one trick ponys. This is the real distinction between orthodoxy and Platonism, each of the Logoi of the Logos is to us a "person", a subject with a will (they are rather one and the same, willing and perceiving). And this is why we are polytheists.
At least that guy who's getting popular now, Beay Bransun, does admit with a sleigh of hand that person and itness is a false dichotomy, they're in Greek nothing but 'real particulars'. You might wonder why I mention this, but it's a hidden massive turd-sandwhich problem in catholic/orthodox onto-theology. If the son and spirit are distinct persons, even though they share will love and mind with the father, why aren't the Logoi and energia each real persons? And if God is the Energia....

>>15738258
>Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language
Bruh