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Lectures on Plotinus at the École Normale
Supérieure 1898-9
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This is a must-read for anyone interested in
Plotinus or the development of Henri Bergson8217
sthought. These lectures were given when Bergson
returned to Paris to teach at his alma mater. We
find many of the main pillars of his Philosophy
in this fascinating little text (e.g. the image
of a cone, the analogy of light refracted by a
prism) as well as components of his psychology
and phenomenology. Bergson attributed to Plotinus
a remarkably similar view of consciousness
to8217sown consciousness is the diminution of
a higher reality and arises from sympathy. There
are critical insights into the development of
Bergson8217ssubtle understanding of images,
which played a crucial yet enigmatic role in
Matter and Memory. We also find a theory of the
unconscious and, with it, an effort to think
beyond what we are naturally capable of
understanding. Some of Bergson8217sown views
of freedom are indirectly clarified in this
course, as well as a profound theory of
causality derived from neo-Platonism. The
attention to life that is at the heart of Matter
and Memory and Creative Evolution, Bergson
describes as essential to Plotinus's philosophy
in the form of the quotconern for the
body,quotwhich triggers the quotfalof the
soul.quotWe are likely to feel he is
quotBersonifyingquotPlotinus, as he was
accused of doing to F233lixRavaisson.
Nevertheless, this resulted in a fruitful
reconsideration of the enigmatic ancient author.
More importantly, in time, it may even prove to
be necessary, in order to make such a profound
thinker's ideas accessible today, for
contemporary
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philosophers to reinvent ideas organically,
instead of trying to reproduce them
mechanically, if what we seek is an event of
insight rather than rigid formulae. Bergson
breathes new life into Plotinus, opening him to
us, and us to insights beyond ourselves.
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Supérieure 1898-9
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Lectures on Plotinus at the École Normale
Supérieure 1898-9