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I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial role played by Plotinus and the Neoplatonists in transforming Greek philosophical thought into the supernaturalism of modern-day western religions. Philosophy and spirituality are engaged in perpetual disagreement as to whether knowledge is best derived from human observation and introspection, or from a non-human source of
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― Imagine: An Inquiry into Spirituality, Political Economics, and Personal Autonomy in a Modern World
― Imagine: An Inquiry into Spirituality, Political Economics, and Personal Autonomy in a Modern World
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When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.
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― The Essential Plotinus
― The Essential Plotinus
