Question
This text draws on middle Platonism in expounding the “agent intellect,” which accounts for the distinction between the forms. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this central Neoplatonist text, which was compiled by Porphyry and records the ideas of Plotinus.
ANSWER: The Six Enneads
[10m] Along with the agent intellect and the soul, this concept is a fundamental principle of Plotinus’s metaphysics. All of reality can be derived from this self-caused principle.
ANSWER: the One [or the Monad or Henosis or the Form of the One or the Form of Unity or the Form of Simplicity or the Form of the Good]
[10e] The conceptual similarity of “the One '' to a single God made neoplatonism popular among theologians like Origen, who belonged to this religion. Neoplatonist metaphysics proved especially fruitful in developing this religion’s doctrine of the Trinity.
ANSWER: Christianity [accept Catholicism]
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