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Single Idea 18463
[filed under theme 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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Full Idea
He who by thought can penetrate within his own substance, and can thus acquire knowledge of it, finds himself in this actualisation of knowledge and consciousness, where the substrate that knows is identical with the object that is known.
Gist of Idea
Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought
Source
Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 6Enn5 44)
Book Ref
Porphyry: 'Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind', ed/tr. Guthrie,Kenneth [Phanes 1988], p.68
A Reaction
It seems remarkably that this ability is confidently asserted by Porphyry, and flatly denied by Hume. Were they just different people, or were they looking for different things, or was one of them deluded?
Related Idea
Idea 1316
Introspection always discovers perceptions, and never a Self without perceptions [Hume]
The
22 ideas
from Porphyry
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Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them?
[Porphyry]
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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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18458
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The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition
[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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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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