I have always maintained this position, but its nice to see it is consistent with Plotinus! academia.edu/3066468/Creeping_Spatiality_The_Location_of_Nous_in_Plotinus_Universe "Plotinus repeatedly states that the soul is everywhere present as a whole without parts and that parts of soul are not present in parts of the body. Nevertheless, Plotinus’ thesis that the soul is everywhere as a whole has in some way to accommodate the spatially scattered actualization of psychic powers such as sight and hearing. The power of sight, for example, is exclusively actualized in the eye, and the power of hear-ing in the ears. He accommodates this by maintaining that not all body is equally capable of receiving these powers of soul. Certain material conditions have to be in place for certain aspects of soul to appear. For all powers of perception, for example, a specific organ is required. Thus, although no part of soul is spatially restricted to a certain place in the body, there are parts of the body where certain functions of the soul(which are present everywhere) are performed exclusively. The dÊnamiw of sight, for example, is present everywhere but is only performed (or actualized) in the eyes, and the dÊnamiw of hearing is everywhere but only actualized in the ears. If this sounds strange, it might be helpful to compare these ubiquitous powers of soul to radio and television waves which, despite being present nearly everywhere, require (functioning) radios and televisions for their actualization."
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:31:51 +0000
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