Friday, March 10th, 1978

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MARCH 10, 1978

PLOTINUS: SOUL

TOPIC: Plotinus

SUBJECT: Soul

SUBSUBJECTS: Animate, Sense-Perception

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Plotinus, The Enneads (MacKenna translation, 4th ed.)

• John N. Deck, Nature, Contemplation, and the One: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus

PLOTINUS QUOTES READ OR REFERENCED: II.9.1, III.2.12, III.8.5, III.9.5, V.1.3, V.1.7, V.3.9, V.6.1, VI.2.22, VI.4.3, VI.7.4, 5, VI.7.39, 40

DIAGRAMS embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1978 0310-1-AB. Individual Soul and Cosmos; Two Streams of Samskaras.

• FIGURE 1978 0310-2-AB. Jupiter Saturn and Thirds of the Chart.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1978 03/10 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Plotinus

[Alan Notes 0310 1978 Begin]

3/10/78 Plotinus

VI.7.4 -- conjoint is an expression of logos spermaticos -- reason-principles. [Note: Plotinus, Enneads.]

[FIGURE 1978 0310-1-AB. Individual Soul and Cosmos; Two Streams of Samskaras. Princ. = Principles; Indiv = Individual. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Deck -- "Is Nature Real for Plotinus?" -- explanation of sense-perception. [Note: John N. Deck, Nature, Contemplation, and the One: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus, Ch. 8, "Is Nature Real for Plotinus?"]

Plotinus: 3 phases of soul.

[FIGURE 1978 0310-2-AB. Jupiter Saturn and Thirds of the Chart. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Read 6.7.39, 40. [Typist's note: The following is bracketed under the preceding.] 5.1.3, 5.1.7, 3.9.5, 2.9.1, 3.2.1, 2, 6.2.22, 5.6.1, 5.3.9, 6.4.3, 3.8.5.

[Alan Notes 0312 1978 End]