Founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus states that the core of all existence is the indefinable One, whose Intellect makes the primal principle of the universe. The creative action of this divine Mind fosters the Soul, the place where the world takes objective shape. Individual souls must employ their power of conscious will in order to free themselves from the limits of their material reliance and contemplate the higher order of reality. Plotinus is the first thinker to put forth the idea that human happiness is independent of the physical world and can only be attained within consciousness due to Man’s faculty of reason.
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