/lit/ - Literature

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>Can you ever put fourth your arguments without the same copied wall of texts? Don't make me quote Einstein to you
Yes.
>Proclus was a genius, and autistically logical (which is why he's the favorite of modern academics), but while he correctly saw the order of the whole and its beauty, he erred in extreme systematization and "analytic" coherence (being the origin of Scholasticism). Proclus denied the twofold One of Iamblichus, yet he understood that all things are triadic, this is clearly a contradiction: it is here Damascius comes in, he in a way goes (poetically) full circle and returns to Plotinus and Iamblichus.
Where Plotinus mystically named Soul and Nous the One (and each as God), yet One and Many not just One. Damascius ameliorates him: Plotinus spoke of Soul as being the Matter of Intellect, and the Dyad as the Matter of the One. But if the Intelligible domain is beyond division then logically Intelligible Matter is single, thus Plotinus' Soul and his Dyad are fused by Damascius (soul itself becomes "something else"---perhaps what is changing in itself, free will incarnate). So now the Infinite/Unlimited/Indefinite Dyad is the One as All things united yet ineffably distinct, named the All-one. Plotinus sometimes called the One the Potential/Power of all things, but this contradicts (on the surface) his saying that the One is "pure Act". We now can see the Limited and Unlimited, yet these are the principles of antithesis even if each is a one/henad, and if we stayed here we'd collapse into Deleuze and Derrida. Thus Damascius enthrones Plato's One-Being/Mixed (like Dionysus and Zeus) and makes Being before Being and truly One, naming him the Unified. The Harmony of all things, equal and before and after the two Principles, now itself a true principle. Here is the Ineffable Triad, the three Henads who together are the One, a One that now we cannot call One for it is greater than even this, thus he is the Ineffable. And now after more than a thousand years, Damascius has returned to the true original doctrines of Pythagoras, Philolaus, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Parmenides and Heraclitus and Plato (these three personifying the three Henads of the Absolute One, the Absolute All, and the Absolute Harmony).