Categoria: Enéada-I-2
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Guthrie: Tratado 19,4 (I, 2, 4) — O efeito da purificação
PURIFICATION PRODUCES CONVERSION; AND VIRTUE MAKES USE OF THIS. 4. Purification may be either identical with the above-defined virtue, or virtue may be the result of purification. In this case, does virtue consist of the actual process of purification, or in the already purified condition? This is our problem here. The process of purification is…
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Guthrie: Tratado 19,3 (I, 2, 3) — As virtudes, sob sua forma mais alta, são purificações
PLATO DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN THE HOMELY AND THE HIGHER VIRTUES. 3. We will now, following (Plato), speak of another kind of assimilation as the privilege of a higher virtue. We will thus better understand the nature of homely virtues, and the higher virtues, and the difference between them. Plato is evidently distinguishing two kinds of virtues…
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Guthrie: Tratado 19,2 (I, 2, 2) — Teoria da dupla assimilação.
THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF RESEMBLANCE. 2. Let us first examine the virtues by which we are assimilated to the divinity, and let us study the identity between our soul-image which constitutes virtue, and supreme Intelligence’s principle which, without being virtue, is its archetype. There are two kinds of resemblance: the first entails such identity…
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Guthrie: Tratado 19,1 (I, 2, 1) — A virtude consiste em se tornar semelhante ao deus
VIRTUE THE ROAD TO ESCAPE EVILS. 1. Man must flee from (this world) here below (for two reasons): because it is the nature of the soul to flee from evil, and because inevitable evil prevails and dominates this world here below. What is this flight (and how can we accomplish it)? (Plato),1 tells us it…
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MacKenna: Tratado 19,7 (I, 2, 7) — Implicação mútua da virtude
7. The virtues in the Soul run in a sequence correspondent to that existing in the over-world, that is among their exemplars in the Intellectual-Principle. In the Supreme, Intellection constitutes Knowledge and Wisdom; self-concentration is Sophrosyne; Its proper Act is Its Dutifulness; Its Immateriality, by which It remains inviolate within Itself is the equivalent of…
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MacKenna: Tratado 19,6 (I, 2, 6) — Virtudes da alma purificada
6. In all this there is no sin- there is only matter of discipline- but our concern is not merely to be sinless but to be God. As long as there is any such involuntary action, the nature is twofold, God and Demi-God, or rather God in association with a nature of a lower power:…
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MacKenna: Tratado 19,5 (I, 2, 5) — A alma que se separa do corpo
5. So we come to the scope of the purification: that understood, the nature of Likeness becomes clear. Likeness to what Principle? Identity with what God? The question is substantially this: how far does purification dispel the two orders of passion- anger, desire and the like, with grief and its kin- and in what degree…
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MacKenna: Tratado 19,4 (I, 2, 4) — Efeito da purificação
4. We come, so, to the question whether Purification is the whole of this human quality, virtue, or merely the forerunner upon which virtue follows? Does virtue imply the achieved state of purification or does the mere process suffice to it, Virtue being something of less perfection than the accomplished pureness which is almost the…
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MacKenna: Tratado 19,3 (I, 2, 3) — Virtudes são purificações
3. We come now to that other mode of Likeness which, we read, is the fruit of the loftier virtues: discussing this we shall penetrate more deeply into the essence of the Civic Virtue and be able to define the nature of the higher kind whose existence we shall establish beyond doubt. To Plato, unmistakably,…
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MacKenna: Tratado 19,2 (I, 2, 2) — Teoria da dupla assimilação
2. First, then, let us examine those good qualities by which we hold Likeness comes, and seek to establish what is this thing which, as we possess it, in transcription, is virtue but as the Supreme possesses it, is in the nature of an exemplar or archetype and is not virtue. We must first distinguish…