For this reason too again [Plato] says of the universe that the craftsman wrapped the soul around it from outside, pointing to the part of the soul that remains in the intelligible; but in the case of our souls he concealed his meaning and said that the soul is on top of the head.
Sayfa 7
How then if we have such great possessions do we not consciously apprehend them, but fail to a large extent to activate them, and some never activate them at all? Those realities are always occupied with their own activities, intellect and that which is before intellect, always in itself, and soul as well [5]—the ever-moving—in this sense.
Sayfa 8
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Since then there exists a soul that reasons about what is just and noble and a reasoning that seeks to determine if this particular course of action is just and if this is noble, it is necessary that there be something permanently just from which reasoning also comes to be in the sphere of soul.
Sayfa 8
So also the realities of man [10] are said to be outside in the sense that Plato speaks of the “inner man”. Our soul, too, therefore is something divine and of a different na-ture like all the nature of soul; and the soul which has intellect is perfect; and in-tellect in two senses, the one that reasons and the one that provides the power to reason.
Sayfa 7
Plotinus was restless in youth, gentle and inspired as a teacher, a mystic in later life (on Porphyry’s testimony, Life, 23) with a distinctive, critical philosophical mind but poor spelling and bad eyesight.
Plotinus’ influence has been immense in the history of thought, from the de-velopment of later Neoplatonism in Christian, Jewish, and Arabic thought, up to Ficino in the Renaissance, and later to Coleridge, Emerson, Yeats, and others.
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