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Plotinus - Eighth Tractate - On emotion and will
Identifier
006368
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Here the argument is that we don't have free will because we are subject to unconscious or subconscious desires and emotions - not that we are in some way 'controlled' by higher powers
A description of the experience
Plotinus – Eighth Tractate – On Free will and the will of the One
Does the soul advance any reasoning which is free from emotion, and can a compelling imagination, an appetite drawing us where it will, be supposed to leave us masters in the ensuing act? How can we be masters when we are compelled?