1985-12-20 NSFRI - Plotinus - Enneads - Giving Birth to Intelligence and Being
Channel: Pierre Grimes and the Noetic Society
Date: 10/03/2018

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 Pierre Grimes and the Noetic Society -- 1985-12-20 NSFRI - Plotinus - Enneads - Giving Birth to Intelligence and Being
Enneads V, I, 4-5 (Ennead V, Treatise 1, Chapters 4-5) Below is a brief review of topics covered from Scott. His more extensive notes are in the PDF in the Download Options menu on this page. 1). 1985-12-20_NSFRI Plotinus : Giving Birth to Intelligence and Being 2). Plotinus Ennead V.I The Three Primal Hypostases Reading Sections 4-5 from the following texts: Plotinus: The Enneads, Stephen MacKenna translation Plotinus Enneads V, the Loeb Edition, A.H. Armstrong translation The Essential Plotinus, Elmer O'Brien 3). Topics Covered A. Being and Intellect giving existence simultaneously to each other. 16:25 "The Intelligence gives existence to Being in thinking it. Being, by being object of thought, gives to The Intelligence its thinking and its existence." B. The Archetypal as the Model and the Universe we know as the Copy. 46:30 We're getting a description of the archetype, we're going to get more of it. We're familiar with this, our universe. We want to know: how did Plotinus make the connection between the two? C. Not only is the Archetype the model, it is the generator of the Copy. 51:45 Okay, Jack. Show us. How are you gonna do that? Let's see it. Here's something that is constantly changing and you're saying it's a copy of something that doesn't change? D. Thinsky's Thirteenth Proposition. 59:30 When you have these different descriptions of these mental states, and you see the way they're described, and then you see what is said about them, then that's where they diverge. How do you account for that? It's all the same experience. E. Why is there Something rather than Nothing? 1:20:30 "How does anything at all substantial come into substantial being? Why has the primal, the one, not remained self-gathered so that there be none of this profusion of the manifold such as we observe in existence..." [Thanks to BillD for video-recording, and to HScottA for title, cataloguing info, and notes.] More info: http://noeticsociety.org