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What is Neoplatonism?

Let's Talk Religion

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Plotinus' Ascetic Philosophy

Plotinus' philosophy and really most of neoplatonism is very much performative and participatory in nature. On the human level, Plotinus tells us that we are to turn away from our bodies. Matter is seen as evil in a sense, but only in Sephora as it becomes an object of desire rather than the one or the good. The physical world is a beautiful, yet imperfect, copy of the noetic world of forms.

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