Freedom of the Will and Metaphysics of the Beautiful

J. Hirschberger, points out that the philosophy of Plotinus is a high point in the history of philosophy, because from there the so-called Greek intellectualism is broken, and the Western metaphysics of the will emerges. The conception of freedom, in Plotinus, is based on a metaphysics of freedom centered on the essential problematic of the soul, for the inner man is what in truth is its essence. Plotinus is concerned neither with civic freedom nor with political freedom. His concern lies in the freedom of the soul itself. For without it all action would be empty, pure formality. For this reason, the metaphysics of freedom is necessarily to the will to freedom in the individual.As for the Metaphysics of the Beautiful, García Bazán states that he would be encouraged to say that there is no formulation of an aesthetic theory in what underlies any of Plotinus' ideas on the Beautiful. In the metaphysics of the Beautiful, Plotinus unfolds all the potentiality of the soul, the triple dimensionality of the soul is manifested in the multiple degrees of beauty, whether artistic or intellectual.These will be the two themes to be presented in this text.