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My post on Plotinus ended with the statement: “There is no single ontological realm that pervades philosophy today, and certainly no dogmatic ontology. If open architecture does indeed have a parallel history to metaphysics, perhaps we can expect to see in the long term a federation of different architecture frameworks and conceptual models that are […]

Ancient philosophy is gaining popularity – and attracting audacious statements.  For example, did Aristotle ‘invent’ the U.S. Constitution?  If Professor Steven B. Smith at Yale can ask that question, I can ask one of my own: did Plotinus invent ‘open architecture’?  The answer depends on whether the ontology of open architecture owes a debt to […]