Categoria: Plotino
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MacKenna: Tratado 27,18 (IV,3,18) — O uso do raciocínio
18. There remains still something to be said on the question whether the soul uses deliberate reason before its descent and again when it has left the body. Reasoning is for this sphere; it is the act of the soul fallen into perplexity, distracted with cares, diminished in strength: the need of deliberation goes with…
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MacKenna: Tratado 28,4 (IV,4,4) — A memória em sua relação à união da alma e do corpo (4)
4. In that realm it has also vision, through the Intellectual-Principle, of The Good which does not so hold to itself as not to reach the soul; what intervenes between them is not body and therefore is no hindrance – and, indeed, where bodily forms do intervene there is still access in many ways from…
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MacKenna: Tratado 28,22 (IV,4,22) — A terra pode ter sensações?
22. And as regards vegetal forms? Are we to imagine beneath the leading principle [the “Nature” phase] some sort of corporeal echo of it, something that would be tendency or desire in us and is growth in them? Or are we to think that, while the earth [which nourishes them] contains the principle of desire…
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MacKenna: Tratado 28,39 (IV,4,39) — Aplicações concretas. Presságios. Mal
39. We cannot, then, refer all that exists to Reason-Principles inherent in the seed of things [Spermatic Reasons]; the universe is to be traced further back, to the more primal forces, to the principles by which that seed itself takes shape. Such spermatic principles cannot be the containers of things which arise independently of them,…
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MacKenna: Tratado 30,2 (III,8,2) — A natureza que é uma forma e uma razão, produz
2. There is, obviously, no question here of hands or feet, of any implement borrowed or inherent: Nature needs simply the Matter which it is to work upon and bring under Form; its productivity cannot depend upon mechanical operation. What driving or hoisting goes to produce all that variety of colour and pattern? The wax-workers,…
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MacKenna: Tratado 31,13 (V,8,13) — Relações entre Ouranos, Chronos, Zeus e Afrodite
13. The God fettered [as in the Kronos Myth] to an unchanging identity leaves the ordering of this universe to his son (to Zeus), for it could not be in his character to neglect his rule within the divine sphere, and, as though sated with the Authentic-Beauty, seek a lordship too recent and too poor…
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MacKenna: Tratado 33,16 (II,9,16) — Sobre a providência e sobre a beleza do universo sensível
16. On the other hand, to despise this Sphere, and the Gods within it or anything else that is lovely, is not the way to goodness. Every evil-doer began by despising the Gods; and one not previously corrupt, taking to this contempt, even though in other respects not wholly bad, becomes an evil-doer by the…
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MacKenna: Tratado 46,10 (I,4,10) — Independência da intelecção
10. Perhaps the reason this continuous activity remains unperceived is that it has no touch whatever with things of sense. No doubt action upon material things, or action dictated by them, must proceed through the sensitive faculty which exists for that use: but why should there not be an immediate activity of the Intellectual-Principle and…
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MacKenna: Tratado 42,18 (VI,1,18) — O agir e o padecer
18. There are other questions calling for consideration: First: Are both Acts and motions to be included in the category of Action, with the distinction that Acts are momentary while Motions, such as cutting, are in time? Or will both be regarded as motions or as involving Motion? Secondly: Will all activities be related to…
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MacKenna: Tratado 43,10 (VI,2,10) — Eliminar outros gêneros: o uno-ser (2)
10. In what sense is the particular manifestation of Being a unity? Clearly, in so far as it is one thing, it forfeits its unity; with “one” and “thing” we have already plurality. No species can be a unity in more than an equivocal sense: a species is a plurality, so that the “unity” here…