So the One is absolutely simple yet has the power to overflow itself and generate the Indefinite Dyad/Nous, just because? This power doesn't violate it's absolute simplicity? And then the Forms of the Nous don't formally exist in the One, but somehow eminently. They begin to exist formally and distinct when the Nous reflects back on the One, but the Nous is ultimately perceiving and reflecting back the Forms that exist eminently in the One. This seems like a cop out to me. Nothing comes from nothing, but Plotinus wants the One to have all the forms yet free of the consequences that his axioms would imply (ie multiplicity, which is bad and evil). Aristotle was more honest to say that God/the One is thinking. Even if this introduces some kind of multiplicity, Plotinus thinks he gets to avoid that by having the Forms exist, but not really, in the One.
>>24986804(Faggot)>crypto-Aristotle threadUnqualified "Being" does not need to partake of Intellection to then become the Qualified Intellect. Since Qualified Being knows itself as the Intellect, it isn't One, but One-Many. Emanation or emitting anything at all is in analogy but not in reality of the three principles of Good or One, Mind or One-Many, Soul or One and Many(sequentially within time). Matter is not a principle unto itself for it exists for the Soul to become an enmattered living being, but nevertheless is the fourth eternal ungenerated principle in the manner of it being the furthest extent in the schema away from the One as it is why it cannot produce anything further that makes it different from itself besides comparative distinctions of matter to smaller matter, ad infinitum, is still material. Asking why is there many things rather than one thing is answered by Necessity thereof to have such eternal principles govern the All. Forms as in Shapes does not exist in Pure Being, while Forms as in Ideas exists in a hypostatically simpler mode where all the Ideas overlaps and converges to the vanishing point of the Formless One, as failed yet approximated expressions of the inexpressible, the sweetness of this ambrosia is not the sweetness of phenomenal sweets, where antinomies are blurred in our mortal blindsight but the divine insight into that which isn't even divine is very bright, where all the Forms radiates back into the One without abandoning the Formations that ritually draws forth the shapeless shape enmattered and shaped through effectively of the finality, the end of the effect.
>>24986804Crypto-geometry thread with the mention of axioms, one, size/magnitude and shape
