Select works of Plotinus ... and extracts from the treatise of Synesius on providence / Translated from the Greek. With an introduction containing the substance of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. By Thomas Taylor.

  • Plotinus
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1817
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    in taking away anger to the utmost of our ability , and if possible, entirely; but if not, the rational part must not at the same time be angry, but the anger must be the passion of another part, and un¬ accompanied with deliberation. And this sudden impulse must be small and imbecile. Fear, how¬ ever, must be entirely removed; for the purified soul will fear nothing. Here, also, the energy must be unattended with deliberation, except it be re¬ quisite to admonish. With respect to desire, it is evident that there must not be a desire of any thing base. And as to the desire of meats and drinks for the sake of a remission of pain, the soul herself will be without it. This likewise will be the case with the venereal appetite. But if the soul is de¬ sirous of connection, it will be I think in the natu¬ ral way, and this not unattended with deliberation* If, however, it should be an unadvised impulse, it will only be so far as it is accompanied with a pre¬ cipitate * imagination. But, in short, the [rational] * In the original προτύπους ; but it should doubtless be as in the above translation, προπετονς. For this is the word used by Marinus, in his Life of Proclus, when speaking of the cathartic virtues of that philosopher, and alluding to this pas¬ sage in Plotinus.
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