Plotinus, aristotle, and nietZsche Flashcards
metaphysics
what is reality/ the ultimate states of reality
epistemology
the idea of what it is possible for us to know
ethics
what is the best form of life
was plotinus religious
nope
what did plotinus think the mind had the potential to do
trancend itself.
what is plotinus’ best life
one of trancendance and spiritual
plotinus on beauty
he begins with its physcial, goes further, then symmetry is beayty, but more,poetry and words can be beauty.
keeps going on
beauty is involved in something beyond sense perception
we respond to beauty and all beauty is good. beauty calls us twoards something greater
what is the response to beauty according to plotinus
Beauty is good, it calls us home
the soul must develop an eye for beauty, first physical then acts of love etc
every human being wants what according to plotinus
beauty and the trancendance in theit heart
complete according to plotinus
“ purified the …”
soul is wholy idea and reason
more intillectual more mind
being vs becoming Plotinus
the universe is not static, in a state of becoming, things are possible a static universe would have no possibility when there is possibility there must be evil.
order of trancendance
matter, body, psyche,intillect, mind, the one
what is your view of plotinus mysticism? in general? is possibility to experience something beyond the sensoy realm
to understand human nature one must understand what truths are possible content beyon the sensory realm
on beauty essay part
is beauty subjective, or does it have some underlying factor
a loop of desires leading to new desires
we are becoming
3 hypostases ( plotinus)
purification
illumination
unification
purification
social, body, material
illumination
the purification of the mind( what is, stillness)
getting to mind, beyond language
unification
knowing intimate, all is known sound soul sound mind etc.
experienceing is truer than reading about
we are not body, we are trancendant mind
plotinus
reincarnation to acchieve unification with the one
plotinus
we are alienated from god who is actively trying to liberate us
jesus is the lobe of god for humans
augustine
the way to deal with the problem of self has to be solved with ….. ( auguatine
religion
describe the fall according to augustine
original sin
before(able not to sin)(
now ( able only to sin)
heaven ( cant sin) (evil is abolished0
two types of people augustine
those who love worldy
those who love god
all we have to do to accept the gifts of god
accept with an authentic lobe for god
plotinus evil vs augustine evil
plot ( time is a cycle and thus evil always exists)
aug( time has a subjective measure in our mind but not in cosmos)
has an end
augustine on time and the cosmos
you are meaningless to teh cosmos.
time is finite.
augustine free will
we have the capacity to create out own volitions from ourselves
if our will is corrupted than the only thing left is to choose god
trinitarain philosophy
AUG
intillect , memory, and the will,
the fall corrupred our will
augustine thinks that the only way to solve pleonexia nd sophrosune is through God
gods grace
we can acchieve the good in one life. it is gods ability to help us acchieve the good by accepting christ
christs sacrifice is the manifestation of gods grace
why does niche think that there are no eternal facts. what is your view?
niche believes in perspectivism. each person sees the world differently and that contributes to the fact that the human mind cant show god the soul or a savior witoyt sense perception.
there is no final way wtihout god due to perspectives, thus truths cant exist
niche says that god is dead. what does he mean
- people are shifting their self meaning and worth
there is less emphasis on metaphysics
God is no longer an explanation for the difficult quesitons
this is about the death of metaphysics not necicarily the church
supersensoru details are dead, we cant understand them anyways, so why bother
the slave vs master analyogy niche
the slave mentality is greater nowadays than the master. are good and evil matters of rationality, or do they change with the times.
the master creates internal values
the slave lacks confidence and taked on teh dominant views
alot of religion and school is this`
value of the truth to niche
the existance of the truth shuts down peoples minds, no considering the possibilities of the own person
live life as a work of art
niche
morality is the herd instinct of the eople. what does he mean?
morality is a tool for leveling. society uses it because its functional for each person to be the same
the society becomes more important and there is no uniqueness
niche believes we need to break the norms and live life as a work of art.
he critiques the new values of meorals such as pverty, chastity etc. . why are these better than wealth pride strength ( greek)
it is a shift in power relations, not a shift in reasonablenss. (slave revolt in morality)
discus niches opinion on christianity
he believes it is life denying
it provides so much rigidity that life can never be lived as a work of art.
he think we cant find the truth, there is no uniqueness in religion. everyone should form their own values
