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Single Idea 6922
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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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 Ref
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?
The
16 ideas
from Plotinus
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6922
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Ecstasy is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man
[Plotinus, by Feuerbach]
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5506
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If soul was like body, its parts would be separate, without communication
[Plotinus]
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21809
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Our soul has the same ideal nature as the oldest god, and is honourable above the body
[Plotinus]
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21808
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Soul is author of all of life, and of the stars, and it gives them law and movement
[Plotinus]
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21811
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Even the soul is secondary to the Intellectual-Principle [Nous], of which soul is an utterance
[Plotinus]
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21812
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Being is the product of pure intellect
[Plotinus]
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21813
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Number determines individual being
[Plotinus]
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21814
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How can multiple existence arise from the unified One?
[Plotinus]
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21815
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Because the One is immobile, it must create by radiation, light the sun producing light
[Plotinus]
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21816
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Soul is the logos of Nous, just as Nous is the logos of the One
[Plotinus]
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21817
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The One does not exist, but is the source of all existence
[Plotinus]
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21824
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The One is a principle which transcends Being
[Plotinus]
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21825
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The soul is outside of all of space, and has no connection to the bodily order
[Plotinus]
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21826
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The Soul reasons about the Right, so there must be some permanent Right about which it reasons
[Plotinus]
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21827
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The movement of Soul is continuous, but we are only aware of the parts of it that are sensed
[Plotinus]
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21828
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A person is the whole of their soul
[Plotinus]
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