/lit/ - Literature

>>16087209
>or copulate

>A man must marry between the ages of thirty and thirty-five, reflecting that there is a sense in which nature has not only somehow endowed the human race with a degree of immortality, but also planted in us all a longing to achieve it, which we express in every way we can. One c expression of that longing is the desire for fame and the wish not to lie nameless in the grave. Thus mankind is by nature a companion of eternity, and is linked to it, and will be linked to it, forever. Mankind is immortal because it always leaves later generations behind to preserve its unity and identity for all time: it gets its share of immortality by means of procreation. It is never a holy thing voluntarily to deny oneself this prize, and he who neglects to take a wife and have children does precisely that. So if a man obeys the law he will be allowed to go his way without penalty, but If a man disobeys, and reaches the age of thirty-five without having married, he must pay a yearly fine

>>16021894
Because the unlimited doesn't know how it is to be limited. You can claim kataphatically that God knows how it feels to no be God and not know whether he himself exists without these ever existing, not even potentially; but this is absurd, and not merely paradoxical but contradictory. God's (as in the One-Being) essence is to know himself as Different and Same---Being IS Knowing, thus the ultimate Being is ultimate knowledge, therefore for he to be in himself ultimate knowledge he has to be All Beings (one and many). And that is how we are Being, and one reason why we and All are. Aka God is the Limit and Unlimited and their perfect Harmony, which are made manifest in Being.
To Platonists all beings have necessary existence, there never was a time were Time and Becoming came to be.

Another reason is pic related.
The answer can also be extracted from Sophist 242a-249d

Corpus Hermetic Book 2 Section 17
Now you shouldn't panic, this must not be read entirely literally, while the begetting and raising of children is one with the highest virtue, the artist who creates beauty is still father and midwife of ideas in the mind's of other's. The same with the Philosopher who's works and teaching saves and improves the lives of millions.
I believe Proclus was mistaken for rejecting Aedesia in place of chastity, in her beauty and intelligence he could through his offspring much more easily preserve the living tradition. But instead the poly beautiful Aedesia gave us Ammonius, though a genius and preserver of the exoteric institution still dominant today, he betrayed true Philosophy.
Likewise Plotinus didn't have children of his own but raised a great number as his own.