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Download or read book The Problem of Evil in Plotinus written by Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... the monistic assertion that its compliance with the formative power is absolute and that its determinations in spite of appearances are all perfectly good. There was then considerable weight to the objection which Plotinus had to consider. It was not, however, the first appearance of the objection in outspoken form, nor was Plotinus the first to attempt to deal with it. It had challenged Plutarch, who had replied to it as follows: "When we talk about Matter, we must not go over to the opinions of some philosophers and say that it must be thought of as a kind of inanimate body, devoid of qualities, inert and inefficient of itself. We call oil the matter of a perfume and gold of a statue, though they are not in themselves devoid of all quality, and the soul itself and the thinking faculty of man we hand over to the reason to be ordered and harmonized, calling them the matter or material of knowledge and virtue. Some have made out also that the mind is the place of the ideas, and is, as it were, an impression from the seal of the intelligible world; and some again consider that the seed of a woman ovum in women is not the potentiality nor the source, but the matter and the sustenance of generation. Thus, if we agree with such views, we must conceive of this goddess (Matter) as having a share of the primal God, and as united to him by love of the goodness and beauty which surround him. She is never opposed to him; but just as we say that a just and law-abiding man is in love with justice, or that a virtuous woman who has a husband with whom she lives, desires him, so we must say that Matter desires God, and is ever in his presence, and is filled with the most powerful and purest parts of him.111 Matter, then, in and per se cannot be the...

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Download or read book Plotinus the Platonist written by David J. Yount and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful new book David J. Yount argues, against received wisdom, that there are no essential differences between the metaphysics of Plato and Plotinus. Yount covers the core principles of Plotinian thought: The One or Good, Intellect, and All-Soul (the Three Hypostases), Beauty, God(s), Forms, Emanation, Matter, and Evil. After addressing the interpretive issues that surround the authenticity of Plato's works, Plotinus: The Platonist deftly argues against the commonly held view that Plotinus is best interpreted as a Neo-Platonist, proposing he should be thought of as a Platonist proper. Yount presents thorough explanations and quotations from the works of each classical philosopher to demonstrate his thesis, concluding comprehensively that Plato and Plotinus do not essentially differ on their metaphysical conceptions. This is an ideal text for Plato and Plotinus scholars and academics, and excellent supplementary reading for upper-level undergraduates students and postgraduate students of ancient philosophy.

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Download or read book The Problem of Evil in Plotinus written by B. A. G. Fuller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from an article from The Philosophical Review, Volume 23: Dr. Fuller has published an interesting and exceedingly well written book in which he attempts to measure the value of mysticism from the point of view of its treatment of the problem of evil. He is interested to prove that a mystical view of the universe must either resolve Reality into a oneness without plurality, a goodness without evil, or must confess its own bankruptcy as a metaphysic. The author finds Plotinus a particularly inviting subject for dissection because the characteristic of his mysticism was its unwillingness to give up both plurality and evil, at the same time that it insisted upon the utter oneness and goodness of the Real. Dr. Fuller believes this to be due to the fact that Plotinus succeeded to two traditions, the naturalistic and the mystical. The naturalistic tradition was responsible for his joy in natural goods, and for that highly peculiar aspect of his philosophy which followed from it,—the belief in a plurality of goods, each perfect in its way and yet not so perfect as the One. The mystical tradition, on the contrary, was responsible for that aspect of his philosophy which voiced the scorn and contempt for the things of the natural world—the body, the human passions, etc.—and which recognized nothing truly worthwhile save the infinite and ineffable One. Plotinus's effort, through emanationism, to resolve the conflict between these two elements in his view, Dr. Fuller finds to be wholly futile, the fundamental fallacy residing in the attempt to make difference in kinds of perfection interchangeable with differences in degree of perfection. There is, Dr. Fuller shows, scarcely a contradiction in the whole Plotinian theodicy which is not referable to this confusion of kinds and degrees; for example, cannot be at once a perfection of its sort, and also less perfect than Ta tv. If, however, it is not less perfect, Plotinus's doctrine is a pluralism of perfects and not a mysticism. If, on the other hand, it is in fact less perfect, the world in so far has defect, and is therefore a dualism of good and evil, not a mystic monism. To hold that all comes from God, as light comes from the sun, helps in nowise to resolve the fundamental conflict here indicated. Dr. Fuller through his three hundred pages tosses Plotinus in painful alternation upon the horns of this dilemma. And yet it is a question whether Plotinus the mystic would have been much perturbed by his critic's merciless treatment. In the first place he would doubtless have questioned, with some sad resignation perhaps, whether his conscientious critic really understood his view as a mystic would understand it; or whether, standing on the outside of the view, he was not applying to it standards and methods of criticism which might indeed have application in his own outside region of thought, but which could have no pertinence within mysticism…. …The value of Dr. Fuller's book, in short, lies not so much in its criticism of Plotinus (although one must acknowledge the value of much of the translation and exposition of Plotinian philosophy) as in its sharply critical handling of the problem of evil from our modern, non-mystical, self-assertive standpoint. No absolute optimism, he shows, no beneficent 'creationism'—and traditional Christianity falls here with all the rest—can any longer successfully resolve evil into good. That way is now closed. The alternative way, Dr. Fuller thinks, is through a frank and searching naturalism. In the discussion of the better way there is in the book much that is of interest and moment for students of religious philosophy, although it is a question whether they will find in Dr. Fuller's arguments a solution adequate to the perplexing problem of evil.

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