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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Among non-Christians, a runner-up would be Plotinus and Neoplatonism. When Nietzsche said "Christianity is Platonism for the masses," he kind of has a point (no offense meant!!).[/quote] Nietzsche is dead. [/quote] I do see Plotinus's concept of hierarchical progression of spheres of awareness as a way to conceptualize the relationships we catholics have to saints and the idea of intercession, but I was following a different intellectual thread from pre-socratics when I read [about] Plotinus.* Do you have any good book recommendations on Plotinus and neo-platonic influence on Christianity? *apparently Plotinus' writing is famously impenetrable. I tried a couple of translations of the Enneads and found them impossible to make progress with.[/quote]
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