The human soul when Plotinus | ||
| Philosophy Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 8, April 2018, Pages 101-115 | ||
| Author | ||
| Muslim Hassan Mohamed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| THE PROBLEM OF SELF IN PLOTINUS By our study of the problem of the self in Plotinus we reached at some findings which we summarize in some points . 1- We can't give an adequate and a full definition to the expression of self because it has many meanings that are varying through ages and which are differentiated in their meaning among the philosophers of one age besides their differentiation throughout one age . 2- Most philosophers meet at the point of the essence of the self since it is abstract and behind the sphere of experiment , also its eternity among those who believe in duality like Plotinus 3- The self of Plotinus have two natures since it is the link between two worlds , the material world and the reasonable world , so it has the nature of division at the same time . It isn't divided when it was in the reasonable world , but after it descended to bodies it took a new feature besides its former feature that is the ability to be divided . 4 – In spite of self ' descent to body , it is according to Plotinus ' point of view still connected with the reasonable world which it came from , so it is connected with its higher source . 5 – For Plotinus the self if the word of the total mind and its act , just like the total mind is the word of the one and his act . Here we see the impact of Christianity on Plotinus ' philosophy since Christianity considers that ( in the beginning there was the word and the word was from Allah and the word was Allah . 6 – Plotinus views the self is out of the sphere of the statements of how much and how and it is a unit that exists in everywhere . 7 – Plotinus believes that the self ' descent to the body is prepared by an inevitable necessity , and he generalized this necessity to all the levels of entity and to all the events of the world and this is what we notice by his thesis about flux . 8 – The self in Plotinus is not a body and it can't die , perish or decay and it has three forces : memory , emotion and sense . 9 – Plotinus denies that the self has any material feature and he removed her from disengagement , universe and decay and it is conditioned that it becomes eternal and it gives life to body and it takes life within itself , so life is inherent in it and it isn't perishing life at any time . 10 – Depending upon Plotinus ' point of view about the eternity of the self there are standards of values and knowledge for man , also depending upon Plotinus ' belief in the reincarnation of souls , there are many social and political issues and the social justice like the discrimination between the sexes and equality and the prospect for the spiritual side of the human being . 11 – Plotinus has drawn many of his opinions about the self from the eastern and the religious culture , also the greek culture especially the aorvian , pythagorsian and platoian culture . 12 – There can't be an understanding to the Plotinus ' philosophy in its physical and metaphysical sides without understanding the self accurately . | ||
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