Full Idea
Ecstasy or rapture is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man.
Gist of Idea
Ecstasy is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man
Source
report of Plotinus (The Enneads [c.245]) by Ludwig Feuerbach - Principles of Philosophy of the Future §29
Book Reference
Feuerbach,Ludwig: 'Principles of the Philosophy of the Future', ed/tr. Vogel,M [Hackett 1986], p.47
A Reaction
See Bernini's statue of St Theresa. Personally I find this very unappealing because of its utter irrationality, but what is the 'highest' human psychological state? Doing mental arithmetic? Doing what is morally right? Dignity under pressure?