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In what realm do mathematics objects exist according to Platonists?
Interpretation of the Platonic forms is a big wrangle and may be undertaken in many ways. But the simplest answer to your question "in what realm" might just be to say everywhere or in every ...
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Was Hegel a Neoplatonist?
The claim that Hegel stands in any line at the start of which is Plotinus looks highly suspect to me.
I make just two points. In the first place, Hegel's Absolute or God, or One if one chooses that ...
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Are Platonic Forms alive?
"alive" is an (unhappy) metaphor for "active".
The three pinciples of Plotinus' ontology : the One, the Intellect and the Soul, are active powers: they produce reality.
See Lloyd ...
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Are Platonic Forms alive?
It's hazardous to say anything about Plotinus. I cannot speak from expertise but as I understand Plotinus, there are three hypostases : the One (hen), Intelligence (nous) and the soul (psuche).
The ...
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Are Platonic Forms alive?
No, Platonic forms are not alive; a neoplatonist distorsion may entertain such a view, and if one is careful enough the assertion that 'neoplatonic forms are alive' might be made accaptable.
Without ...
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Was Neoplatonism a synthesis of Jewish & Platonic monotheism?
Plotinus' relation to Plato seems straightforward but is not. But that he has some relation to Plato, that he treats Plato frequently as a touchstone, is clear. Jewish influence on Plotinus' thought, ...
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Was Neoplatonism a synthesis of Jewish & Platonic monotheism?
This is only a partial answer presenting some doubts that Plotinus was attempting a synthesis of Jewish and Platonist traditions of monotheism.
Plotinus’s monotheism would come from the introduction ...
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How does Plotinus view body going in soul?
Personally I would recommend that you read middle Platonists like Galen. The thing to keep your eye on is the relationship between psychē, pneuma, and sarkos as it developed in later Hellenistic ...
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Does the concept of a God who is both immanent and transcendent originate with Plotinus?
I rather incline to think he was. The language of 'transcendence' and 'immanence' comes later but Plotinus' One covers both aspects in a way not to be found in Plato, Aristotle or the Stoics.
If we ...
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Is it necessary to read Neoplatonic works (e.g. Plotinus, Porphyry, etc...) to understand St. Augustine's books?
Given that Christianity borrowed a lot from neoplatonism (works of Iamblichus of Chalcis: Theurgy of the Soul, Egyptian Mysteries, Letters), and openly harvested other traditions as a religion that ...
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Platonism in modern philosophy of physics: Stephen Wolfram and Max Tegmark ideas
…all the universes proposed by Tegmark would exist in some way according to Wolfram's ideas?
I’m more familiar with the Wolfram’s theory and I think that it approximately equals and is continuously ...
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In which points do Neoplatonic ideas differ from Christianity?
One of the biggest differences is that Neoplatonism, at least in its early forms, does not personify the divine. We may identify God the Father with the Neoplatonic "One," but in doing so, ...
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Was Hegel a Neoplatonist?
No, Hegel was not a neoplatonist.
Both Hegel and Plotinus were builders of very abstract metaphysical systems, and both admired Plato, but if we look deeper it will be quite clear that Hegel was not ...
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How does Plotinus view body going in soul?
Perhaps on a basic level at birth the body descends from the body of the mother into the soul (air). So literally plunging the body head first into the soul.
The moment of breath is the moment of ...
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Is it necessary to read Neoplatonic works (e.g. Plotinus, Porphyry, etc...) to understand St. Augustine's books?
One cannot read everything nor does reading something mean that one understands what one has read.
To make sure the reading that one does involves the best understanding it is useful to focus on ...
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