Gus Lamarch

Good and Egoism. - If you accept that humans are not "bad" but in fact "egoistic", you may realize that, in fact, "good" is just a reflection of someo...

Now tell me if this is worth discussing... Simplistic pseudo-argument based on the individual opinion of the OP simply because he has some resentment ...

I thought you didn't take my article proposal seriously and so I just decided to send it to the e-mail address that you gave me. If there was any misu...

DISCLAIMER: I only submited my article for publication, but the editors still have not contacted me about it, even though, I said - to them - that eve...

Hi Charles. The philosophical vision that I defend here is completely original and constructed by me. Nietzsche, in none of his works, defends the ego...

Yeah, that happens to everybody :smile: It was probably of low quality so, yeah.

What makes a "moral" act be considered "moral"? I would say that a hegemony of thought - like a religion, a dogma, an ideology, a theory, etc ... -. W...

One of the most difficult acts of the individual to achieve is the total abandonment of any type of morality - which are chains that make it impossibl...

The only purpose of a civilizaiton is to be good to its own people, nothing more, nothing less. Rome was good to Romans, ancient Greece was good to An...

“No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy of the sacrifice of my life. From the day that I discovered myself, I have considere...

What he is not able to perceive is that this concept of "ethnic supremacy" did not exist - and in reality, never did exist - in the Classical Age. Hum...

Some examples of Barbarians attaining power in Roman society - that in itself is already a symptom of decadence and degradation - were Flavius Stilich...

My pen name. I have to say anything else?

"but this world is a broken home just enough for the memory to feel right" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aOsFcT9YXA&list=RDGMEMQ1dJ7wXfLlqCjwV0xfSN...

The problem with this is that humanity is essentially biased. If everyone has different opinions, which one is the real one? This was the case in whic...

“But at the bottom, the immanent philosopher sees in the entire universe only the deepest longing for absolute annihilation, and it is as if he clearl...

The human civilization of antiquity can be summarized in 4 states: Roman Empire; Sassanian Empire; Aksumite Empire; Han Dynasty of China; All of them ...

Positive-Egoism. Egoism is the nature of humanity and we should accept it.

Due to the Roman Empire's vast extent and long endurance, the institutions and culture of Rome had a profound and lasting influence on the development...

Are we on the verge of a cultural collapse? Just look around you. What do you see? If it's not hegemonic, then the culture has been long dead. “The mo...

By my egoism! Please stop filling the discussion with garbage and stupid revisionism. The purpose of my discussion was not to judge the Romans, as thi...

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I think it is a problem located only here in Brazil; this discussion of the term "Dark Ages". Almost all "academics" favor ending the use of "Dark Age...

It is very likely that this will be humanity's last civilizatory cycle. If we destroy ourselves - and it is almost certain that we will - I very much ...

We live during the fall of our Rome. It's uncommon to people to become aware of it. I greet you.

Agreed. This is what Plotinus is saying. In the moment we try to atribute something to a concept of absolute, it is not anymore absolute. People don't...

I am not here to discuss whether Plotinus is correct or not. I am simply stating that people, when reading his works, easily confuse the concept of th...

I would like to make it public my favor for the use of the term "Dark Ages" to cover the period from 476 AD - deposition of Romulus Augustulus by Odoa...

The first purpose of this discussion of mine was about the fact that people find it very easy to confuse the concepts of the One with God. It is proba...

Sure.

Plotinus denies sentience, self-awareness or any other action to the One. Rather, if we insist on describing it further, we must call the One a sheer ...

Of course, any new knowledge is always appreciated. Oh my friend, pick the book and lets go! :grin:

My first contact with Neoplatonism was through the study of Christian philosophy and theology - more specifically, Early Christianity - and somehow, I...

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No, because everything emanates from it. Plotinus denies sentience, self-awareness or any other action to the One: "It is impossible for the One to be...

So we are two. I - speaking my personal opinion now - find it inappropriate to talk about "alternative scenarios" because any change made to the scena...

Now it is. The point is that the One of this hypothetical "clay" would be the entire soil of the Earth. I'm not saying anything, Plotinus is saying th...

You're not making sense. Please clarify.

Plotinus can explain for me: "Once you have uttered "The One" add no further thought: by any addition, and in proportion to that addition, you introdu...

This represents very well the state of regression that Europe passed from the 5th to the 9th centuries. Only Constantinople would remain with a popula...

Yeah Praxis, you really didn't understand anything, and worse, you don't even try to argue for your wrong point.

This part is less complex than it appears to be. Plotinus is claiming that the "proper name" - if I may put it so - of the One is enough to conceive a...

“Where the world comes in my way—and it comes in my way everywhere—I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but—my food, ...

Sorry for the comment, but I can't have a discussion with you when your argument is simply: "I said that, and you got it wrong."

The One, as comprehended by Plotinus is a "metaphysics of radical transcendence that extends beyond being and intellection." The One, being beyond all...

For once, we agree!

So you can joke?

We should consider too, the theories of both Michael Rostovtzeff and Ludwig von Mises about the economic collapse of the Roman Empire: "Historian Mich...

Completely. The later Roman Empire was in a sense a network of cities. Two diagnostic symptoms of decline are subdivision, particularly of expansive f...