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Single Idea 18448
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Full Idea
The pleasures of love will not even involuntarily be tasted, at least, she will not allow herself to be drawn beyond the lights of fancy that occur in dreams.
Gist of Idea
We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams
Source
Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 1Enn2 I.4)
Book Ref
Porphyry: 'Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind', ed/tr. Guthrie,Kenneth [Phanes 1988], p.32
A Reaction
Presumably erotic dreams are only tolerated because not much can be done about them. This brings out the puritanism of neo-platonism.
The
21 ideas
from 'Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind'
18444
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Civil virtues make us behave benevolently, and thereby unite citizens
[Porphyry]
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18445
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Civil virtues control the passions, and make us conform to our nature
[Porphyry]
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18446
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Purificatory virtues detach the soul completely from the passions
[Porphyry]
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18447
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There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues
[Porphyry]
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18448
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We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams
[Porphyry]
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18449
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Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body
[Porphyry]
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18450
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Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body
[Porphyry]
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18451
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The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition
[Porphyry]
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18453
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Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought
[Porphyry]
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18454
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Time is the circular movement of the soul
[Porphyry]
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18455
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Some think time is seen at rest, as well as in movement
[Porphyry]
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18452
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Memory is not conserved images, but reproduction of previous thought
[Porphyry]
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18456
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Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it
[Porphyry]
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18457
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Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul
[Porphyry]
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18458
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The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition
[Porphyry]
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18459
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Diversity arises from the power of unity
[Porphyry]
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18462
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The soul is everywhere and nowhere in the body, and must be its cause
[Porphyry]
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18460
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God is nowhere, and hence everywhere
[Porphyry]
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18461
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Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity
[Porphyry]
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18463
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Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought
[Porphyry]
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18464
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Justice is each person fulfilling his function
[Porphyry]
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