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The wawing tree the one mind, the neo-plotinian concurrence of the
many in the One? The neo-Plotinian idea of emanation is postmodernity,
after all>? The multiplicity in the one polymorphic mind is no mind? 'All
question for the ghost of Yeats.' Is this what Yeats wanted to say>?
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I'm slightly confused here, Erminia.
*Do* you mean neo-Plotinian? And if by that, what?
Iamblichus? Proclus? Porphyry even, who if such a thing exists would be
the first neo-Plotinian.
I'm not even happy with the term "Neoplatonic" (a nineteenth century
invented word), in terms of which Plotinus could possibly be considered
Neoplatonic (rather than simply, better, Platonic -- an inheritor and
extender of the Platonic tradition). But neo-Plotinian?
Much of what you seem to be referring to above is quite orthodoxly
Plotinian, and can be found in the Enneads. So why not simply Plotinian?
Robin
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