Colloquium 1 Gazing at the Sun: Contemplation of the One and Happiness in the Philosophy of Plotinus

Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 37 (1):1-16 (2023)
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The paper explores the link between contemplation of the One and happiness in Plotinus and challenges the traditional interpretation according to which a contemplative or mystical experience of the One is by necessity brief and transitory, while the experience of Intellect can become a stable state in this life. Were it so, it would not serve as a ground for the good or happy life. In order to reconcile this point with Plotinus’s other claim about contemplation, his doctrine of the double activity of Intellect is invoked.

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