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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

21811	Even the soul is secondary to the Intellectual-Principle [Nous], of which soul is an utterance [Plotinus]
	Full Idea: Soul, for all the worth we have shown to belong to it, is yet a secondary, an image of the Intellectual-Principle [Nous]; reason uttered is an image of reason stored within the soul, and similarly soul is an utterance of the Intellectual-Principle.
	From: Plotinus (The Enneads [c.245], 5.1.03)
	A reaction: It then turns out that Nous is secondary to the One, so there is a hierarchy of Being (which only enters at the Nous stage).

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil

2175	There is a problem of evil only if you expect the world to be good [Williams,B]
	Full Idea: There is a "problem of evil" only for those who expect the world to be good.
	From: Bernard Williams (Shame and Necessity [1993], III - p.68)