/lit/ - Literature

>>13546911
I see, I was gonna say they both monists practically saying the same thing.

>>13546499
>so what are qualities, and where do those come from?

An example of a "quality" would be "coldness" or "hotness". They follow a paradigm of disparity. To say that they "come from" something is sort of a misnomer since qualities aren't actually "something specific" to begin with. They are uncreated and exhibited by things that are created (ice exhibits coldness/hotness) and are relative to other qualities that intermingle. If you melt the ice, the coldness seems to "vanish" yet it comes back to be exhibited one the water freezes again.

>>13547501
>>13548052
Proclus is good, but get the Thomas Taylor translations of Plotinus. Better to have an actual platonist transcribe/translate the meaning of what's been said. Also was the first to translate platos works into English, the only downside is that it's all in old style english and gets extremely verbose. Armstrong translations of Plotinus are ~okay~, but even more infuriating to understand.