{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Neoplatonism - Part 2: A mystery at the heart of all things","description":"What if the source of everything is not just higher, but beyond existence itself? Plotinus’s answer is as simple as it is dizzying: reality flows from a first principle so absolute, it cannot even be called a being. This is the One—the Good—hidden at the root of all things.\r\n\r\nAt the center of Neoplatonism stands a claim both clear and confounding. All that exists comes from the One, which is not a god among gods, nor a supreme being, nor even a thing at all. It stands beyond every category, every comparison. Plotinus calls it “the One” or “the Good,” and insists: it is not the top of the pyramid, but the source from which the pyramid itself arises. You can’t picture it. You can’t name it by traits. To call it powerful, wise, or even existent is already to go astray.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/neoplatonism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}