Platão e platonismo

Categoria: Enéada-I-8

  • Hades

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    We teach that Virtue is not the Absolute Good and Beauty, because we know that These are earlier than Virtue and transcend it, and that it is good and beautiful by some participation in them. Now as, going upward from virtue, we come to the Beautiful and to the Good, so, going downward from Vice,…

  • Bouillet: Tratado 51 (I, 8) – DE LA NATURE ET DE L’ORIGINE DES MAUX

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    (I) Le Mal absolu, étant la négation de l’Être et de la Forme, ne peut être connu directement par lui-même. On ne peut le concevoir qu’indirectement, en se le représentant comme le contraire du Bien : d’où suit que pour déterminer la nature du Mal, il faut d’abord déterminer celle du Bien. (II) Le Bien…

  • Matéria e Forma

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    I. 8. 15 (end) (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) [Matter, absolute Evil, never presents itself to us alone; it is always bound in, overlaid with Form, which is good.] Because of the power and nature of Good, the Bad is not only bad; for it appears necessarily bound in a sort of beautiful…

  • Matéria enquanto limite da descida

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    I. 8.7 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) [A comment on some Platonic texts from the Theaetetus and Timaeus : evil must necessarily exist (i) because matter is necessary to the existence of the visible universe; (ii) because the process of outgoing or down-going from the Good must have a limit, and this limit…

  • Matéria: princípio do mal

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    I. 8. 3 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) [The principle of evil is absolute formlessness as opposed to form, non-being as opposed to being, i.e. Matter.] If being is of this kind, and also That beyond being, evil can be neither in being nor That beyond being, for they are good. It remains…

  • Kind

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    MacKenna traduz «natureza» ou «espécie» ou «substância» por «Kind»: There must, then, be some Undetermination-Absolute, some Absolute Formlessness; all the qualities cited as characterizing the Nature of Evil must be summed under an Absolute Evil; and every evil thing outside of this must either contain this Absolute by saturation or have taken the character of…

  • MacKenna: Tratado 51,12 (I,8,12) — Vício e privação parcial

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    VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 12 12. If the existence of Matter be denied, the necessity of this Principle must be demonstrated from the treatises “On Matter” where the question is copiously treated. To deny Evil a place among realities is necessarily to do away with the Good as well, and even to deny the existence of…

  • MacKenna: Tratado 51,11 (I,8,11) — Mal e privação

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    VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 11 11. It may be suggested that Vice is feebleness in the Soul. We shall be reminded that the Vicious Soul is unstable, swept along from every ill to every other, quickly stirred by appetites, headlong to anger, as hasty to compromises, yielding at once to obscure imaginations, as weak, in fact,…

  • MacKenna: Tratado 51,10 (I,8,10) — Mal e ausência de qualidade

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    VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 10 10. But if Matter is devoid of quality how can it be evil? It is described as being devoid of quality in the sense only that it does not essentially possess any of the qualities which it admits and which enter into it as into a substratum. No one says that…

  • MacKenna: Tratado 51,8 (I,8,8) — A união da alma e do corpo

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    VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 8 8. But there will still be some to deny that it is through this Matter that we ourselves become evil. They will say that neither ignorance nor wicked desires arise in Matter. Even if they admit that the unhappy condition within us is due to the pravity inherent in body, they…