/lit/ - Literature

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1.7 The Primal Good and Secondary Forms of Good
IP = Intellectual-Principle
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For the Soul, the Good is its own natural Act

To possess the Absolute Good, other beings may either become like It or direct the Act of their being to It

The Good is the first Cause of all Act

The Good doesn't act on other entities, others must act towards this source and cause

The Good is above Being, Act, IP, Intellection
- like a circle's center, or the sun's light

To align toward the Good, the soulless must move toward Soul, the Soul toward Good

Everything has some Good
- certain degree of unity/Existence/Form as images
- the Soul has the Good by degree of it's orientation toward the IP
- where there is life with intellection, one has doubly contact with the Good

Death isn't evil
- for something to be evil it must have a subject (existence?)

after death, the Soul is either free to ply its own Act, joined with the All-Soul, or punished in the lower world

the Gods aren't evil

Evil only happens in life, so death is a greater good than life

the Soul can lose it's purity and become evil

Life is the partnership of body and Soul, Death is it's dissolution
- there's nothing good about this partnership, it's only good by virtue of dispelling evil
- this Couplement is evil in itself
- the Soul attains Good by using Virtue to achieve disembodiment/separation with the body
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Did Plotinus have a conception of the solar system? Is that why did he compares the sun to the center of a revolving circle?

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After reading so far, only enough so that you understand it, and after that, only if it's a necessary for possession of the Good. Plotinus hasn't tried to explain what that is so far but I know Plato gives a full account of it in the Republic, and Plotinus definitely has his works in mind when he writes. However, he seems to have disdain the body, and I've heard his later writings are more ascetic.
Actually the one for today was pretty life-denying, Evil and Suicide are up next though so that will be interesting.