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6 - Looking into Our Face

from Part III - Intellect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2024

Mateusz Stróżyński
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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poland
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This chapter discusses the first level of noetic contemplation. Both psychic and noetic level are subdivided into two levels, which could be termed contemplation “from below” and “from within” a given macrocosmic level. The first stage of noetic contemplation is looking at Intellect “from below”, that is, from the level of the World Soul and by our faculty of reason. We Intellect “as another” and in a partial way (seeing particular Forms). It is only when we ascend from that phase to noetic contemplation proper that we see, so to speak, our own face or we see the seer, which is our own intellect participating horizontally in Intellect. We also see the Forms through sensible things when we look at the world. Instead of rejecting the sensible, we embrace it, seeing the sensible things better, because now we are seeing them in and through their noetic archetypes. The whole world is within us, but the difference between the seer and the seen is overcome, and we see that we are the world.

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Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World
Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect
, pp. 229 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Looking into Our Face
  • Mateusz Stróżyński, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poland
  • Book: Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World
  • Online publication: 03 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009494854.010
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  • Looking into Our Face
  • Mateusz Stróżyński, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poland
  • Book: Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World
  • Online publication: 03 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009494854.010
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  • Looking into Our Face
  • Mateusz Stróżyński, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poland
  • Book: Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World
  • Online publication: 03 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009494854.010
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