Categoria: Plotino
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Tratados das Enéadas (ordem cronológica)
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in PlotinoOs tratados chegaram à estrutura de composição das Enéadas por eventuais reordenamentos e divisões em partes, de modo a serem organizados, segundo Dominic O’Meara, em um número de 54, produto do número perfeito 6 (ao mesmo tempo 1+2+3 e 1x2x3) e do número 9, símbolo da totalidade enquanto último dos números primeiros (de 1 a…
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Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 8) — Sympathy between individual and universal soul comes from common source. (Guthrie)
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SYMPATHY BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND UNIVERSAL SOUL COMES FROM COMMON SOURCE. 8. The sympathy existing between souls forms no objection. For this sympathy might be explained by the fact that all souls are derived from the same principle from which the universal Soul also is derived. We have already shown that there is one Soul (the…
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Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 7) — Difference between individual and universal souls. (Guthrie)
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND UNIVERSAL SOULS. 7. That is what seems true to us. As to the Philebus passage (quoted in the first section), it might mean that all souls were parts of the universal Soul. That, however, is not its true meaning, as held by some. It only means what Plato desired to assert…
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Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 6) — Why should creation be predicated of the universal soul and not of the human? (Guthrie)
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WHY SHOULD CREATION BE PREDICATED OF THE UNIVERSAL SOUL AND NOT OF THE HUMAN? 6. If there be similarity between the universal Soul and the individual souls, how does it happen that the former created the world, while the others did not do so, though each of them also contain all things within herself, and…
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Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 5) — Souls retain both their unity and differences on different levels. (Guthrie)
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SOULS RETAIN BOTH THEIR UNITY AND DIFFERENCES ON DIFFERENT LEVELS. 5. How could the universal Soul simultaneously be the soul of yourself and of other persons? Might she be the soul of one person by her lower strata, and that of somebody else by her higher strata? To teach such a doctrine would be equivalent…
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Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 4) — Intellectual difficulty of the soul being one and yet in all beings. (Guthrie)
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INTELLECTUAL DIFFICULTY OF THE SOUL BEING ONE AND YET IN ALL BEINGS. 4. If the universal Soul be one in this manner, what about consequences of this (conception)? Might we not well doubt the possibility of the universal Soul’s simultaneously being one, yet present in all beings? How does it happen that some souls are…
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Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 3) — Consciousness of some part of the body to the whole consciousness? (Guthrie)
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CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOME PART OF THE BODY TO THE WHOLE CONSCIOUSNESS? 3. Are individual souls parts of the universal Soul as, in any living organism, the soul that animates (or vivifies) the finger is a part of the entire soul back of the whole animal? This hypothesis would force us to the conclusion either that…
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Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 2) — Alma e Alma-do-Mundo: ser da mesma espécie não significa ser uma parte (Guthrie)
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CONFORMITY TO THE UNIVERSAL SOUL IMPLIES THAT THEY ARE NOT PARTS OF HER. 2. Consider the following answers. To begin with, the assertion that souls conform (to each other), because they attain the same objects, and the reduction of them to a single kind, implicitly denies that they are parts (of the universal Soul). We…
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Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 1) — A alma provém da alma do mundo (Guthrie)
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PSYCHOLOGY OBEYS THE PRECEPT “KNOW THYSELF,” AND SHOWS HOW WE ARE TEMPLES OF THE DIVINITY. 1. Among the questions raised about the soul, we purpose to solve here not only such as may be solved with some degree of assurance, but also such as may be considered matters of doubt, considering our researches rewarded by…
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Vida de Plotino XXIV (Guthrie)
XXIV. CONTENTS OF THE VARIOUS ENNEADS. This is what I have to relate of the life of Plotinos, He had, however, asked me to arrange and revise his works. I promised both him and his friends to work on them. I did not judge it wjse to arrange them in confusion chronologically. So I imitated…
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A beleza sensível e sua fundamentação (Bazán)
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in PlotinoExcertos de “Plotino y la fenomenología de la belleza” Efectivamente el tratamiento se inicia en Enéada I, 6: Peri toü kaloü. Es un escrito breve. Los seis primeros capítulos abordan los entes bellos perceptibles por la vista — incluidos los cuerpos físicos — y por los oídos (la literatura y la música — coral y…
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Vida de Plotino XIII (Guthrie)
XIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS S DELIVERY. In his lectures his delivery was very good; he knew how to make immediate apposite replies. Nevertheless, his language was not correct. For instance, he used to say “anamnemisketai” for “anamimnesketai”; and he made similar blunders in writing. But when he would speak, his intelligence seemed to shine…
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Vida de Plotino XII (Guthrie)
XII. THE PROJECT OF A PLATONOPOLIS COMES TO NAUGHT. The emperor Gallienus and the empress Salonina, his wife, held Plotinos in high regard. Counting on their good will, he besought them to have a ruined town in Campania rebuilt, to give it with all its territory to him, that its inhabitants might be ruled by…
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Vida de Plotino XI (Guthrie)
XI PLOTINOS AS DETECTIVE AND AS PROPHET; PORPHYRY SAVED FROM SUICIDE. So perfectly did he understand the character of men, and their methods of thought, that he could discover stolen objects, and foresaw what those who resided with him should some day become. A magnificent necklace had been stolen from Chione, an estimable widow, who…
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Vida de Plotino X (Guthrie)
X. HOW PLOTINOS TREATED HIS ADVERSARY, OLYMPIUS. Among those who pretended to be philosophers, there was a certain man named Olympius. He lived in Alexandria, and for some time had been a disciple of Ammonius. As he desired to succeed better than Plotinos, he treated Plotinos with scorn, and developed sufficient personal animosity against Plotinos…
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Vida de Plotino IX (Guthrie)
IX. PLOTINOS AS GUARDIAN AND ARBITRATOR. There were women who were very much attached to him. There was his boarding house keeper Gemina, and her daughter, also called Gemina; there was also Amphiclea, wife of Aristo, son of Jamblichus, all three of whom were very fond of philosophy. Several men and women of substance, being…
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Vida de Plotino VIII (Guthrie)
VIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS. Once Plotinos had written something, he could neither retouch, nor even re-read what he had done, because his weak eyesight made any reading very painful. His penmanship was poor. He did not sepa”- rate words, and his spelling was defective; he was chiefly occupied with ideas. Until his death he…
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Vida de Plotino VII (Guthrie)
VII. VARIOUS DISCIPLES OF PLOTINOS. Plotinos had a great number of auditors and dis ciples, who were attracted to his courses by love of philosophy. Among this number was Amelius of Etruria, whose true name was Gentilianus. He did indeed insist that in his name the letter “l” should be replaced by “r,” so that…
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Vida de Plotino VI (Guthrie)
VI. PLOTINOS S BOOKS OF THE THIRD PERIOD (THE EUSTOCHIAN PERIOD). While I was in Sicily, where I went in the fifteenth year of the reign of Gallienus, he wrote five new books that he sent me: 46. Of Happiness. i. 4. 47. Of Providence, First. iii. 2. 48. Of Providence, Second. iii. 3. 49.…
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Vida de Plotino XXIII (Guthrie)
XXIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS; THE ECSTATIC TRANCES. This oracle (pieced out of numerous quotations) says (in some now lost lines, perhaps) that Plotinos was kindly, affable, indulgent, gentle, such as, indeed we knew him in personal intercourse. It also mentions that this philosopher slept little, that his soul was pure, ever aspiring to the…