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I'm currently reading through that section, or as much of it as I can online. The notes suggest that the word "Demiurgos" is used for "Creator" in order to set up a contrast with Plato's creator (Demiurgos), who "creates a less than perfect world." I don't hink that's right. A lot of what I'm reading seems perfectly in line with the Platonic tradition. "Since whatever was added to human nature from the irrational life was not in us before humanity fell into passion, we shall also leave behind all the conditions which appear along with passion" would be acceptable to Proclus and is basically what Plato says in the Phaedrus. I'm not sure the differences are as great as some think.