PHIL249 Study Guide - Neoplatonism, Plotinus, Making Money

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Philosophy at St Joseph's College
• Course: PHIL249
• Professor: Matthew Kostelecky

Document Summary

This is why he rejects manichaenism. also manichaenism makes some astronomical projections which don"t come true. Augustine switches from the academic skepticism of carneades-sort. he sees in the platonists a way to get out of skepticism. Mathematics plays a huge part in that. this is neo-platonic plotinian etc. *evil doesn"t exist, there is no such thing as evil. Evil, like blindness, is a privation of the good this is all in plotinus. Evil is a privation of what ought to be there. Socrates and his will are two good things god has made. Socrates" will has to choose between money and teaching. It is good, better, to be a willing thing than a non-willing thing. God only makes goods our evils are the movements of our will toward lesser goods. All things created have variable levels of good. god creates this variability in good.