The Partially Examined Life (Citizens): (Protected Content)
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On “The Intelligence, The Ideas, and Being” from the Enneads (270 C.E.), about the various elements of Neo-Platonist cosmology: You’ve got The One, which is so awesome that it has literally no properties (so you can’t even say it’s awesome), then The Intelligence, which is the repository of the Forms (these first two together serve the same function as Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover), then The Soul (the World Soul) that actually exists in time and creates things, then lots of little souls, individual Forms that are transmitted around via “the seminal reasons,” and the grubby material world that nonetheless may have received enough Form to make us look up the chain of Being toward its divine elements.
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