Symposium: Soul and Contemplation in Plotinus

Thursday, April 11, 2019, University, Miséricorde, Room MIS08 0102

Program

13.15 - 14.45 
Ágoston Guba
Thinking without Representation: The Disembodied Soul in Plotinus

15.15 - 16.45
Peter Moddel
Out of the unity of contemplation, the multiplicity of all we perceive manifests.  How? 
Enigmas, Paradoxes, Resolutions in Plotinus’ Ennead III 8
What if, in play, we say, all things aspire to contemplation and in so doing they 
participate in the purpose and direction of all that is. Could playing with such a thought, 
itself, be contemplation?