Plotinus: The One (Agnosticism)

by dhw, Saturday, March 29, 2014, 21:16 (3892 days ago) @ George Jelliss

GEORGE: Since my arguments based on Stenger's ideas of the universe originating from a void don't seem to have been understood, I've been looking for other ways of expressing similar ideas. Maybe these ideas of Plotinus go some way to bridging the gap between reason and mysticism:
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinos#One[/link] -Maybe this is a way of reconciling all our views.
One instead of Nothing!
-Thank you for this, George. I fear there is no way it will reconcile all our views, but I couldn't help being struck by the fact that Plotinus's "The One" is "without sentience, self awareness or any other action." It is a "potentiality without which nothing can exist". And it is "beyond all attributes including being and non-being" but is also "the source of the world".-With just a little bit of latitude, couldn't we call that "energy"?