Author : Michael Bennett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532642067
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Practice of Philosophy in Plato and Plotinus by : Michael Bennett
Download or read book The Practice of Philosophy in Plato and Plotinus written by Michael Bennett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato said over 2,500 years ago that “an unexamined life for a man is not worth living.” To examine one’s life, on a regular basis, cannot but lead to a consideration of virtue, which in turn leads to a search for the Good, which both Plato and Plotinus say all men naturally seek. What we call a good informs the value system we live by, but a good can only reflect the Good, if it is good for our soul and the soul of our neighbor, any more than we can claim virtue with a mote in our eye. Are the wrongs perceived in society also in ourselves, for where else could they have come from? So we need a different kind of inquiry and a different order of reflection; an inquiry that reveals errors in how we see things and a reflection that seeks a spiritual dimension to how we see things. It does not matter if it is called contemplation or meditation, for the principle of prayer has been with us ever since man first intimated the presence of the Divine.