Gus Lamarch

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I have the impression that you took my previous comment personally, but it was not focused on you and in fact, on anyone. I just mentioned that Plotin...

Yes, I fully agree with you. Roman culture, even though it was rooted in the north - like Gaul and Britain -, did not have enough time to take root co...

A person who does not have an in-depth study of Plotinus' philosophy would easily have confused the concept of the One with God; it is a very easy mis...

As I told you in other discussions: "It is difficult to find qualities in someone or about someone when you don't agree with them." Obviously you'd fi...

This is practically what Plotino claims the One is. If you disagree, that is a matter of opinion, but if it is about Plotinus' philosophy, it is a mis...

Glad that you were motivated to go after the context to understand my article. :up:

In no way am I claiming that he is the villain of the story. I am claiming that he was the first post-roman monarch to try to remind the masses of the...

Even Theodoric knew that only being romanized they could prevail: "An able Goth wants to be like a Roman; only a poor Roman would want to be like a Go...

It is a fact that the barbarian germanic tribes eventually assimilated to Roman culture. The point is that they simply made this culture theirs: "Over...

Do we really need to explain?

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Thank you - This publication was the first time I made it public, and I am honored to have the first positive feedback from someone other than from Br...

My point with this publication is to be approved and my article to be edited for the articles section of the forum. The discussion can start after tha...

This is not what Plotinus said. He said: "Once you have uttered 'The Good,' add no further thought: by any addition, and in proportion to that additio...

Classical texts have already been adapted to contemporary vocabulary by translation into English and other languages. Adapting the vocabulary to the s...

Rome - in the times of the great emperors like Trajan and Marcus Aurelius - had a population of 1 million people. The population of the city had falle...

By the masses. Of course the aristocracy still had the knowledge.

The imperial Roman system died with the ascension of Diocletian in 284 AD. If this happened now in our era, we have at least 100 more years, but you n...

@"Olivier5"

And then they invaded the province of Soissons of Syagrius - the last roman Dux of Gaul -.

I am not talking about widespread extermination of the Roman population. What I say is that with the Roman population growth decreasing since the 2th ...

Agreed completely.

I'm going to take a look soon. :smile: Yeah, here in Brazil is the other way around...

You're welcome :smile: Emperor Constantine had been a natural example of how to be a populist ruler. He supported the religious movement that would br...

It is good to see more and more people turning against this type of pseudophilosophy. Well said @"Philosophim"!

In a way, the only legacy that Charlemagne left was the freshest memory of the ancient light of Rome - something that his people - the Franks - helped...

The One. Plotinus: "Once you have uttered "The One", add no further thought." Agreed completely.

In no way can they be compared. The Carolingian Empire had been forged from iron and blood, and from the ambition of a people - the Franks - led by a ...

This was only one of the causes of the fall of Rome. Other causes would be: The Crisis of the Third Century- 234–284 -, a period of political instabil...

I explicitly focus only on humanity. I do not consider the essence of other animals or other beings in my article. My use of the word "virtue" is more...

My argument presented here, is a descriptive way of abstracting this human "essence" that I call "egoism", however, many other synonyms can be used - ...

And I get that this discussion isn't going anywhere.

I don't believe there is contradiction on the philosophy of Plotinus. You affirmed that there was. It really is impossible for you to try to understan...

The Emperor Valens - sucessor of Julian in the East - was an Arian too. I don't know if you agree, but for me, this period of religious diversificatio...

True enough. Yeah, "Suomi", or as the whole world knows, "Finland". The point is that in the end, both will consider themselves as the rightfully repr...

This is way all kinds of Anarchism will never work. There an utopian ideal, some kind of metaphysical purpose for the godless politics and philosopher...

Yep, discussing anarchism makes any sane mind go crazy for its meaninglessness. And what brings discipline to the world when it has been totally forgo...

But they do not compare in any way to a concept of "State" that is the premise of the discussion - Good point nonetheless -. But now, ask both of them...

Reflect on that sentence for a moment. The common language of the ancient Roman civilization, which was standard until the end of the 2nd century, was...

Then we are two. Even trying to understand the symbologies that such practices and customs could have for them, we will never perceive these symbols w...

I am pretty sure that the state's legitimacy has already been proven by it through the power it commands over the population of said state. You could ...

Why then, in your view, the State is illegitimate? And why would you not support its overthrow? It seems as a contradiction to me.

Quote from the page: "Philosophical anarchism is an anarchist school of thought, which holds that the state lacks moral legitimacy whilst not supporti...

"Soaking in the sweetest summer rain Denial, you win again And I'll happily lose to you" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts7C2BXlU6c&list=RDts7C2BXlU6...

Are you reading the discussion? I doubt so. Plotinus compared the One to "light", the Divine Intellect to the "Sun", and lastly the Soul to the "Moon"...

One of the most striking features, which made Roman civilization so great and productive, was that it had emerged from a culture that had been evolvin...

Please, clarify your position,

(III.8.10) As Plotinus explains in both places and elsewhere (e.g. V.6.3), it is impossible for the One to be Being or a self-aware Creator God.

I completely agree. The barbarian kingdoms established in Europe after the fall of Rome in 476 AD are an example of what mental degradation and cultur...