What’s Wrong with the World     Plotinus on divine simplicity
and modernity  I can read your mind. You’ve been thinking “Gee,
I wish someone would write a four-part series of blog posts on
the neglected ancient Neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus which
addresses first his metaphysical and theological significance
and then his moral outlook.” Right? I thought so. That’s why I
wrote this, this, this, and this and posted them over at my own
blog. Just call me Criswell.  Comments (9)  Wow! Just what I was
thinking! :-)  I am, in fact, going to print these out and read
them. I have bought your book "The Last Superstition" and am
(slowly) reading it.   Gerson/Plotinus hangs his hat on #7 and
wiggles away from an unnecessary but possibly uncomfortable
argument. A distinction between essence and existence appears
today as a gratuitous complication of identity, apologies to the
Scholastics and lingering allegiance to a Kantian noumena. The
last however being applicable in a larger sense, that questions
of an initial st