Plotinus, aristotle, and nietZsche

Question 1

metaphysics

Answer 1

what is reality/ the ultimate states of reality

Question 2

epistemology

Answer 2

the idea of what it is possible for us to know

Question 3

ethics

Answer 3

what is the best form of life

Question 4

was plotinus religious

Answer 4

nope

Question 5

what did plotinus think the mind had the potential to do

Answer 5

trancend itself.

Question 6

what is plotinus’ best life

Answer 6

one of trancendance and spiritual

Question 7

plotinus on beauty

Answer 7

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

Question 8

what is the response to beauty according to plotinus

Answer 8

Beauty is good, it calls us home

the soul must develop an eye for beauty, first physical then acts of love etc

Question 9

every human being wants what according to plotinus

Answer 9

beauty and the trancendance in theit heart

Question 10

complete according to plotinus

“ purified the …”

Answer 10

soul is wholy idea and reason

more intillectual more mind

Question 11

being vs becoming Plotinus

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

order of trancendance

Answer 12

matter, body, psyche,intillect, mind, the one

Question 13

what is your view of plotinus mysticism? in general? is possibility to experience something beyond the sensoy realm

Answer 13

to understand human nature one must understand what truths are possible content beyon the sensory realm

Question 14

on beauty essay part

Answer 14

is beauty subjective, or does it have some underlying factor

a loop of desires leading to new desires
we are becoming

Question 15

3 hypostases ( plotinus)

Answer 15

purification
illumination
unification

Question 16

purification

Answer 16

social, body, material

Question 17

illumination

Answer 17

the purification of the mind( what is, stillness)

getting to mind, beyond language

Question 18

unification

Answer 18

knowing intimate, all is known sound soul sound mind etc.

experienceing is truer than reading about

Question 19

we are not body, we are trancendant mind

Answer 19

plotinus

Question 20

reincarnation to acchieve unification with the one

Answer 20

plotinus

Question 21

we are alienated from god who is actively trying to liberate us
jesus is the lobe of god for humans

Answer 21

augustine

Question 22

the way to deal with the problem of self has to be solved with ….. ( auguatine

Answer 22

religion

Question 23

describe the fall according to augustine

Answer 23

original sin
before(able not to sin)(
now ( able only to sin)
heaven ( cant sin) (evil is abolished0

Question 24

two types of people augustine

Answer 24

those who love worldy

those who love god

Question 25

all we have to do to accept the gifts of god

Answer 25

accept with an authentic lobe for god

Question 26

plotinus evil vs augustine evil

Answer 26

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

Question 27

augustine on time and the cosmos

Answer 27

you are meaningless to teh cosmos.

time is finite.

Question 28

augustine free will

Answer 28

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

Question 29

trinitarain philosophy

Answer 29

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

Question 30

gods grace

Answer 30

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

Question 31

why does niche think that there are no eternal facts. what is your view?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

niche says that god is dead. what does he mean

Answer 32

• 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

Question 33

the slave vs master analyogy niche

Answer 33

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`

Question 34

value of the truth to niche

Answer 34

the existance of the truth shuts down peoples minds, no considering the possibilities of the own person

Question 35

live life as a work of art

Answer 35

niche

Question 36

morality is the herd instinct of the eople. what does he mean?

Answer 36

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)

Question 37

discus niches opinion on christianity

Answer 37

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