Categoria: MacKenna – Plotinus

But what is this escape? “In attaining Likeness to God,” we read. And this is explained as “becoming just and holy, living by wisdom,” the entire nature grounded in Virtue. Enneads I,2,1 But does not Likeness by way of Virtue imply Likeness to some being that has Virtue? To what Divine Being, then, would our…

But does this Power possess the Virtues? We cannot expect to find There what are called the Civic Virtues, the Prudence which belongs to the reasoning faculty; the Fortitude which conducts the emotional and passionate nature; the Sophrosyne which consists in a certain pact, in a concord between the passionate faculty and the reason; or…