Plotino o la semplicità dello sguardo

Philosophy As Transformative The French philosopher Pierre Hadot (b. 1922) is known for his studies of ancient philosophy and for his teaching that philosophy is not a mere academic study. Instead, for Hadot, philosophy is a spiritual training and a way to understand one's life in the company of a te Leggi tutto

“Our head strikes the heavens” – Homer, Iliad 4,443 “Often I reawaken from my body to myself: I come to be outside other things, and inside myself. What an extraordinarily wonderful beauty I then see! It is then, above all, that I believe I belong to the greater portion. I then realize the best form Leggi tutto

Go back inside yourself and look: if you do not yet see yourself as beautiful, then do as the sculptor does with a statue he wants to make beautiful; he chisels away one part, and levels off another, makes one spot smooth and another clear, until he shows forth a beautiful face on the statue. Like h Leggi tutto

Plotinus is one of the most intriguing voices of the classical world. A thinker in the vein of St. John of the Cross, Rumi, and Simone Weil, he's an example of what Aldous Huxley called the "perennial philosophy," the universal thread that winds through all mystical thinking. Plotinus emphasizes the Leggi tutto

Brilliant. Hadot bring's the enormous spirit of Plotinus to life. A sensitive and enthusiastic spiritual biography.

I did not enjoy this, nor learn from it as much as I hoped. I have a vague sense of Plotinus, but I expected a little more. I suspect that if I had done more background reading first I may have benefited more, but I assumed I would not need to for what is presented as an introductory text. This may

Это лучше чем бриллиант.

Precioso libro. Espero que al menos en parte sea cierto.