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Ideas of Porphyry, by Text
[Greek, 234 - 305, Born at Tyre. Taught by Plotinus. Based in Alexandria. Wrote 'Against the Christians' (lost).]
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Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind
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1Enn2 I.1
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p.27
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18444
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Civil virtues make us behave benevolently, and thereby unite citizens
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1Enn2 I.2
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p.28
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18445
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Civil virtues control the passions, and make us conform to our nature
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1Enn2 I.4
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p.31
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18446
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Purificatory virtues detach the soul completely from the passions
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1Enn2 I.4
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p.31
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18447
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There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues
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1Enn2 I.4
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p.32
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18448
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We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams
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1Enn9 2
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p.33
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18449
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Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body
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1Enn9 3
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p.33
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18450
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Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body
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4Enn3 21(20)
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p.41
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18451
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The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition
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5Enn3 32(5-7)
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p.48
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18453
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Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought
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5Enn3 32(5-7)
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p.50
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18454
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Time is the circular movement of the soul
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5Enn3 32(5-7)
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p.50
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18455
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Some think time is seen at rest, as well as in movement
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5Enn6 25(2)
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p.44
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18452
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Memory is not conserved images, but reproduction of previous thought
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6Enn4 37(5)
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p.58
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18456
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Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it
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6Enn4 39
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p.61
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18457
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Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul
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6Enn4 39
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p.62
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18458
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The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition
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6Enn5 42
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p.65
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18459
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Diversity arises from the power of unity
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6Enn5 43
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p.65
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18460
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God is nowhere, and hence everywhere
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6Enn5 43
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p.65
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18461
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Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity
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6Enn5 43
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p.66
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18462
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The soul is everywhere and nowhere in the body, and must be its cause
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6Enn5 44
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p.68
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18463
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Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought
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6Enn5 44
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p.69
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18464
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Justice is each person fulfilling his function
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Isagoge ('Introduction')
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(2)
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p.1
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15034
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Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them?
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