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>>12353717
This guy

>>12349650
Plotinus

Was Plotinus right?

>MILKY MILKY WARM AND TASTY!

>MOMMY! MILKY! PLEASE BE HASTY!

>REFRESHING DRINK FROM MOMMY'S UDDERS!

>I WANT MOMMY'S AND NO OTHER'S!

>GIVE IT! GIVE IT! GIVE IT NOW!

>GIVE ME MILKY, LAZY SOW!

>UNTIL YOU DO I'LL SCREAM I'LL SHOUT!

>I'LL CRY I'LL WHINE AND STOMP ABOUT!

>UNTIL MY BELLY IS FULL AND HAPPY!

>I REFUSE TO TAKE NAPPY!

>>11685780
Kant was refuted long before Kant was born

What about Plotinus?

What do ya'll think of Plotinus?

"What measures, then, shall we adopt? What machine employ, or what reason consult by means of which we may contemplate this ineffable beauty; a beauty abiding in the most divine sanctuary without ever proceeding from its sacred retreats lest it should be beheld by the profane and vulgar eye? We must enter deep into ourselves, and, leaving behind the objects of corporeal sight, no longer look back after any of the accustomed spectacles of sense. For, it is necessary that whoever beholds this beauty, should withdraw his view from the fairest corporeal forms; and, convinced that these are nothing more than images, vestiges and shadows of beauty, should eagerly soar to the fair original from which they are derived. For he who rushes to these lower beauties, as if grasping realities, when they are only like beautiful images appearing in water, will, doubtless, like him in the fable, by stretching after the shadow, sink into the lake and disappear. For, by thus embracing and adhering to corporeal forms, he is precipitated, not so much in his body as in his soul, into profound and horrid darkness; and thus blind, like those in the infernal regions, converses only with phantoms, deprived of the perception of what is real and true"

- Plotinus, from "An Essay on the Beautiful" as translated into English by Thomas Taylor 1917

Worthy of study? Who know what? And why were the ancients so much smarter than we modern apes? They didn't have the tools to know science, but really how much sense do Lacan or Baudrillard make compared to the philosophers of late antiquity?

Where to start? Enneads?

How do I into Plotinus?

>>9548026
You better do not fall for any of that dualist crap. Evil arises from a deficiency of goodness.

>>9287551
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Jk our bodies are a lie and we need to ascend into unity with the one :)

Plotinus.

Any other answer is literally wrong.

hey /lit/

reposting this thread: do you think i should read cynicism, pyrrhonic skepticism, and neoplatonism before dipping into christian philosophy? i plan on moving to the stoics and epicureanists after aristotle then augustine after the two (perhaps take a dip into confessions then see if he interests me enough to read city of god). for neoplatonism i'm extremely interested in it from what i've read but i read the lack of translations of the main texts.

thanks for any suggestions

>Everything before lead up to him
>Everything after was degeneration
Did Plotinus finish philosophy?

You don't because it's a fucking misinterpretation of Plato's Timaeus.

>>7822046
You're not it alone, everything is.

>the gods ought to come to me, not I to them

what did he mean by this?

>>7548503
Gnosticism is literally Reddit
This is a Plotinean board

No.

Are the Neo-platonists worth reading? They intrigue me, but aside from their aid in the forming of Christianity, what did they bring to the table? Could one gain as an individual through reading them?

I've heard the Enneads are quite difficult, is reading Plato sufficient? Or are there any secondary sources I should read?

Thank you in advance for any aid or advice :)

>Admiring pursuit of the external is a confession of inferiority; and nothing thus holding itself inferior to things that rise and perish, nothing counting itself less honourable and less enduring than all else it admires could ever form any notion of either the nature or the power of God.

What did he mean by this?