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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 21:42:27 2020 No.14829211 [View] File: 22 KB, 305x400, Plotinus-857.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14829205 probably closest we can get,

Anonymous Mon Jun 19 10:29:13 2017 No.9654842 [View]
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How has your experience with Plotinus and other Middle Platonist authors been? There must be some level of his writings that I am missing. The distinctions between levels of hypostasis, levels of the soul, inability of discursiveness to possess immediate knowledge etc. appears very nebulous and arcane to me. It seems as though Plotinus speaks of these things as "real" realities that exist (that is, can be known), but offers no real practical guidance as to how to realize them; all of his arguments, especially the ones that employ the above for premises, leave me totally puzzled.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 07:01:51 2015 No.5997092 [View] File: 26 KB, 305x400, Plotinus-857.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Recently I started reading some Plotinus' Enneads.What do you guys think about his views?

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