Ep. 343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On selections from the Enneads (270 C.E.), as presented by Elmer O'Brien as the first four essays in The Essential Plotinus: "Beauty," "The Intelligence, Ideas and Being," "The Descent of the Soul," and "The Good or The One." Featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, Seth, and guest Chris Sunami.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life a podcast by some guys who had one point |
| 0:11.1 | said on doing a philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:14.3 | Our question for episode 343 is something like, what is our metaphysical relationship |
| 0:18.8 | to the good and the beautiful? |
| 0:20.1 | And we read selections from Platinus's Aneids, originally collected around 270 CE, |
| 0:25.2 | but here presented as the first four essays of the essential Platinus by translator |
| 0:29.4 | Elmer O'Brien in 1964. For more information about this book and the podcast, see |
| 0:33.9 | partially examined life.com. This is Mark Lintzenmeyer loving filth for filth |
| 0:38.0 | sake in Madison, Wisconsin. This is Seth's soul imprisoned in Seth |
| 0:41.6 | body and exiled from the Divine in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:45.2 | This is Westall One, a fugitive from the Divine hiding out in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:50.9 | This is Dylan Casey living and borrowed being in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:55.0 | And I'm Christinami and I am existing in one of God's dreams. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome back, Chris. Thank you. This has long been on our list, and we had a guest |
| 1:07.2 | for it, and we didn't have a guest for it, and it just kept getting pushed down, and I think |
| 1:11.0 | West Poopoo did a lot. No, didn't. You did you did you said this is not necessary |
| 1:17.8 | that it will be redundant of other things. I never said that. I'm saying there's a reason why we didn't you send me evidence of I don't know I guess I forgot I just I think I said it wasn't a high priority |
| 1:29.2 | which would have been wrong I can see myself saying that and that was wrong. |
| 1:33.1 | I apologize for that. |
| 1:35.0 | I've kind of noticed that Mark always blames you |
| 1:37.6 | for whatever it is. |
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