Word: plotinus
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...powerful, sensitive boy who mixed baseball and Emerson, swimming and Wordsworth. He read Plotinus before he went to Harvard and his spiritual life always returned to a silent noon in the library at Iowa City when, aged 16, ecstasy first came upon him. Thereafter he was a "panarchist...
Greek philosophy from Plato to Plotinus tried to reach its solution through reason by the conception of general ideas of which reality is mere imperfect correspondence. Reality was thus considered inferior to the idea, action inferior to contemplation. But this did not rescue the individual soul from death, since the "idea" was general, not individual...
...these your highest dreams of life?" he asked. "Listen, my friend," he continued. "He who dwells here is one of a class of men who regard themselves as forming the highest society in the land. But this man cares more for that old Aldine or that rare Plotinus yonder, than he cares for the outside world or for his own soul. The world is centered in his library. A few intimates there are to whom he lays bare his feelings, and of most authors he is desirous of winning the respect; but the great mass of men, 'the unknown public...
...Plotinus...