Plotinus · Philosophy
Plotinus’ philosophy of <em>beauty</em>: beauty is not symmetry or proportion but the shining of <em>form</em> (the intelligible) through matter - a trace of the divine that awakens the soul’s love and draws it upward toward the source of all beauty, the Good itself.
You learned that for Plotinus beauty is not symmetry or proportion but the shining of form (the intelligible) through matter - a trace of the divine in the sensible world that awakens the soul’s love and draws it upward, through ever-higher beauties, toward the Good that is the source of all beauty. Explain his philos…
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