Friday, April 5, 2013

Theatrum Mundi: Plotinus' stage, Plato's cave

"The world for Plotinus is a stage as life for Plato is lived in a cave. Both used these images not to denigrate man, but to emphasize that a greater and better sphere of reality is available to him."

-- Theatrum Mundi: The History of an Idea, Lynda Christian, [Harvard thesis 1969], 1987, p. 55.


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