Categoria: Neoplatonismo

OF THE SEPARATION OF THE SOUL AND BODY. VIDE ENEADA-I-9 2. Nature releases what nature has bound. The soul releases what the soul has bound. Nature binds the body to the soul, but it is the soul herself that has bound herself to the body. It, therefore, belongs to nature to detach the body from…

OF THE CONCEPTION OF MATTER. VIDE Eneada-II-4 While separating ourselves from existence we by thought beget nonentity (matter). While remaining united with existence, we also conceive of nonentity (the one). Consequently, when we separate ourselves from existence, we do not conceive of the nonentity which is above existence (the one), but we beget by thought…

OF THE INCORPOREAL. (3) VIDE Eneada-III-6 5. The name “incorporeal” does not designate one and the same genus, as does the word “body.” Incorporeal entities derive their name from the fact that they are conceived of by abstraction from the body. Consequently, some of them (like intelligence and discursive reason) are genuine beings, existing as…

VIDE Eneada-IV-II 15. (1) Every body is in a place; the incorporeal in itself is not in a place, any more than the things which have the same nature as it. 16. (1) The incorporeal in itself, by the mere fact of its being superior to every body and to every place, is present everywhere…

UNION OF THE SOUL AND THE BODY. VIDE Eneada-IV-III 21. (20) The hypostatic substance of the body does not hinder the incorporeal in itself from being where and as it wishes; for just as that which is non-extended cannot be contained by the body, so also that which has extension forms no obstacle for the…

OF THE PROCESSION OF BEINGS. VIDE Eneada-V-II 26. When incorporeal hypostatic substances descend, they split up and multiply, their power weakening as they apply themselves to the individual. When, on the contrary, they rise, they simplify, unite, and their power intensifies. 27. In the life of incorporeal entities, the procession operates in a manner such…

INTELLIGENCE KNOWS ITSELF BY A CONVERSION TO HERSELF. VIDE Eneada-V-III 31. (1) When one being subsists by dependence on any other, and not by self-dependence and withdrawal from any other, it could not turn itself towards itself to know itself by separating from (the substrate) by which it subsists. By withdrawing from its own existence…

VIDE Eneada-VI-4 OF THE INCORPOREAL. 35. The incorporeal is that which is conceived of by abstraction of the body; that is the derivation of its name. To this genus, according to ancient sages, belong matter, sense-form, when conceived of apart from matter, natures, faculties, place, time, and surface. All these entities, indeed, are called incorporeal…