For Plotinus, man "is in some sense divine, and the object of the philosophic life is to understand this divinity and restore its proper relationship with the divine All and, in that All, to come to union with its transcendent source, the One or Good". Plotinus's philosophy is difficult to elucidate, precisely because what it seeks to elucidate is a manner of thinking that precedes what one terms 'discursive thought'. — Plotinus, Lecture Notes
but I take it from all this that a empiricist will never find the soteriological release of nirvana. — Tom Storm
"Enlightenment thinkers sought to curtail the political power of organized religion, and thereby prevent another age of intolerant religious war."
The common thread defining the state of consciousness referred to in the various traditions as enlightenment, seeing the truth, becoming the real self, becoming free, seeing the true nature of things, becoming authentic and so on, seems to be non-attachment to the ego, the opinions of others and the things of this world in general. — Janus
Neither [Parm & Ploti] rely on or espouse empirical or sensory knowledge but aim at an insight into a 'higher truth' through visionary or non-ordinary states. — Wayfarer
It is fairly clear that someone "not attached" could be interpreted as "not caring" because they cannot care about something they have no attachment too. — I like sushi
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