Why didn't anybody in middle Platonism come up with a decent systematization of Platonism before Plotinus? Were middle platonists really so stupid they conflated the One with the Intellect and couldn't explain the generation of evil without incurring duality?

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Anonymous Thu Dec 30 10:22:09 2021 No.19657559 [Reply] [Original]

Why didn't anybody in middle Platonism come up with a decent systematization of Platonism before Plotinus? Were middle platonists really so stupid they conflated the One with the Intellect and couldn't explain the generation of evil without incurring duality?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 30 10:23:23 2021 No.19657568 because Wittgenstein said language is flawed and he was right

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 30 11:48:14 2021 No.19658043 >>19657559 Plotinus does not resolve the problem of evil (if the one is the only principle, then distance from the one is distance through what exactly?) his system is just dualism that claims to be monism.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 30 12:23:51 2021 No.19658284 Plotinus doesn't teach exactly the same thing Plato taught in the Philebus and Parmenides.

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