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Episode #015 ... A Period of Transition - Plotinus

Philosophize This!

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Plotinus's Theology of Forms

To plotinus, humans were really just pure intellects with an individual soul. He thought the purpose of an intellect was to think and try to gain understanding about the world of forms. The goal of philosophy is that we should turn away from this bodily existence and towards reality by contemplating and trying to understand the forms. And then eventually we'll find out how faked the physical world is, and actually we were always connected to true existence tear two.

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