/lit/ - Literature

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>I like them but almost all of the people I have seen who buy from them are narcissistic philistines.
I mean it's the only high quality publications of his works, there are a few paperback editions, but I wouldn't trust them.
>it makes the mistake of assuming neoplatonism is the same as Platonism
when will this bullshit lie end, it was literally invented by some seething 19th century protestants who offered no argument why they should be called "neo"platonists, it is only peddles by pseuds who've never read them nor have they read much of Plato or Aristotle beyond a select few texts.

>It is not particularly difficult to locate the textual basis in Plato’s dialogues for the three fundamental principles of Plotinus’s version of Platonism.5 As we saw in the last chapter, the primary provenance of the Good is Republic, where the superordinate Idea of the Good is found. Its identification with the One is confirmed by Aristotle’s testimony. That identification of Intellect with the Demiurge and Soul as the principle of the soul of the universe and individual souls derives from Timaeus. The identifi cation of nature with the lowest part of the World Soul and matter with the receptacle follows somewhat less directly. Aristotle says that the receptacle is identical with matter as he, Aristotle, understands that. Theophrastus follows Aristotle in testifying that this is what Plato taught as a result of his investigations of nature. Plotinus, too, accepts that it is Plato’s authentic teaching. That nature and matter are the final steps of the procession from the One are claims that must be seen as following from the integrated hierarchical metaphysics that Plotinus embraces. A good place to start to test Plotinus’s systematic version of Platonism is just here, where there is not an obvious proof text for Plotinus to rely on.