/lit/ - Literature

>>21722307
No problem, thanks for answering some of my questions also.
>it is seeing itself
That makes sense. Kind of similar to the equating of Being to Idea, and why Plotinus likens a purer sense of Beauty in some way to it also.

4.4 notes are written. I put this off for a while but I will just add it now for the sake of completeness.

>>21643476 4.4 Problems of the Soul (II)

No memory remains in souls when they return to the intellectual realm

3 Soul leaves the union with the IP out of love for it's powers and possessions, and so wants a memory of itself
- Possession without consciousness or memory of the possessed is often stronger (unconscious possession of belief "runs very close to identity")

8 The force of the star souls' tendency to unity and the light cast from themselves are like strumming the notes of a lyre (This analogy was heavily used by I think Pythagoreans)

10 Usage of "demiurge" as an appellation from Zeus
- nothing to do with notions of stage or progress, but rather unchanging/timeless life

12 Wisdom is a state of repose, not apparent by acts of reasoning and memory
- the person possessing wisdom doesn't need to reason since they are wise (Very different take than Aristotle, who likens habit to having goodness)

The "leading principle of the universe" is omniscient

13 The difference between Wisdom thus conducting the universe and Nature
- first versus last
- Nature is an image and the last in the Soul
- Nature operates towards Matter and receives from it; Soul also operates toward matter but without receiving in turn

14 If time is a thing of division and comports a past, how is the activity producing it (eternity) not also of division?
- The realm created by the All-Soul is always in time
- Souls are not in time, but some of their experiences and productions are, since Souls are eternal
- What is in Time is lower than Time itself; "Time is folded around what is in time exactly as place and number fold around what is in place and number (location, situation/quantity)"

17 Variations in judgment do not affect our highest moral
- analogy of the ineffectual advisor of good counsel speaking who often fails to dominate over the "brawlers and roarers"

(on political organizations) Life is aristocratic in the supreme type of living since ruler is one only (Hyper Statist); A municipality is in two sections, the "superior city" and "the city of the lower elements"
- in the mid-type a better class of citizens keep the rest in a demotic check
- in the anarchic-type humans are a compost

18
Does the body have force of it's own?
- The body holds some shadow of soul
- everything in existence is a composite

19 pleasure/pain
- pain is our perception of a body despoiled and deprived of the image of the Soul
- pleasure "our perception of the living frame in which the image of the Soul is brought back to harmonious bodily operation