/lit/ - Literature

>>21721550
Thanks for your summaries MacKennanon, they've been helpful.
>How do Souls change lives in reincarnation if they are purely original? Do they trade Reason-Principles?
Every soul contains all the reason-principles. (Are these are plural form of Logos, Logoi?) And soul is united in its upper sphere. It seems to me that particular portions of soul cycle around eternally through all the logoi. My guess is this is accomplished through the soul trying to emulate the Divine idea of Absolute Justice.
>so sex ambiguity seems to be a matter of ethics for him
Sexuality is surely at the service of reason for a Platonist. It provokes an interesting question. I'm reminded of this saying from the Pythagorean Carmen Aureum:
>Learn how to produce eternal children, not such as may supply the wants of the body in old age, but such as may nourish the soul with perpetual food. -Demophilus

>if the IP sees then why is what is seen Beauty?
Because it is seeing itself. It sees an aspect of itself. By the same power as that which sees, so is the seen made capable of sight. The Intellect sees Intellectuality. Mind sees mind. Its weird. The sort of thing that I guess could sound confusing but it's as basic as closing your eyes and imagining anything. You see with your mind as you imagine the image you are seeing through your mind with your mind.
>>21721564
>I'm also beginning to take the word "Form" to mean "definition" as that one anon pointed out last thread
Fair. How about "concept"? The Idea of a car/ the concept of a car.
>guided first by the thought that perceived beauty is borrowed from Idea
This is a crucial lesson I think. A great way of not getting mentally trapped in the mundane. I think it's worth treating like a mantra. Certainly a vital mental tool.

>The IP is in one phase the Form/shape of Soul
>- If the IP is the maker of All, it doesn't do so by looking outside itself, since it contains Being and the objects of itself
>- in the immaterial, knowledge of the thing is that thing
>- this is why Being = Idea
Good summary here.