Categoria: Enéada II

VIDE Eneada-II, 1, 7 7. We can scarcely do better, in fine, than follow Plato. Thus: In the universe as a whole there must necessarily be such a degree of solidity, that is to say, of resistance, as will ensure that the earth, set in the centre, be a sure footing and support to the…

VIDE Eneada-II, 1, 6 6. We may now consider the question whether fire is the sole element existing in that celestial realm and whether there is any outgoing thence with the consequent need of renewal. Timaeus pronounced the material frame of the All to consist primarily of earth and fire for visibility, earth for solidity…

VIDE Eneada-I, 1, 3 3. We have to ask, that is, how Matter, this entity of ceaseless flux constituting the physical mass of the universe, could serve towards the immortality of the Kosmos. And our answer is “Because the flux is not outgoing”: where there is motion within but not outwards and the total remains…

2. Supposing we accept this view and hold that, while things below the moon’s orb have merely type-persistence, the celestial realm and all its several members possess individual eternity; it remains to show how this strict permanence of the individual identity – the actual item eternally unchangeable – can belong to what is certainly corporeal,…

VIDE Eneada-II, 1, 1 1. We hold that the ordered universe, in its material mass, has existed for ever and will for ever endure: but simply to refer this perdurance to the Will of God, however true an explanation, is utterly inadequate. The elements of this sphere change; the living beings of earth pass away;…

SECOND ENNEAD, BOOK ONE. Of the Heaven. HEAVEN, THOUGH IN FLUX, PERPETUATES ITSELF BY FORM. 1. Nothing will be explained by the perfectly true (Stoic) statement that the world, as corporeal being that ever existed and that will ever exist, is indebted for the cause of its perpetuity to the volition of the divinity. We…

The Second Ennead First tractate. On the kosmos or on the heavenly system.

3. ¿Cómo, pues, a pesar de su fluidez constante, cooperan a la inmortalidad del mundo la materia y el cuerpo del universo? Porque el cuerpo (fluye), diríamos, pero no hacia fuera; permanece en el universo y no sale en modo alguno de él, no sufriendo igualmente ni aumento ni disminución; por tanto, tampoco envejece. Conviene…

2. Admitamos esta opinión y afirmemos que el cielo y todo lo que hay en él posee una eternidad individual, en tanto que lo que cae bajo la esfera de la luna posee una eternidad en cuanto a la especie. Habrá que mostrar también cómo un ser corporal puede conservar su individualidad e identidad con…

1. Dícese que el mundo es eterno y que tuvo y tendrá siempre el mismo cuerpo. Si damos como razón de esto la voluntad de Dios, es posible que no nos engañemos, pero, con todo, no nos procuramos ninguna evidencia. Por otra parte, ofrécese la transformación de los elementos y, en la tierra, los animales…

(§ I-II) Le monde, être corporel, a toujours existé et existera toujours. Chez les animaux, l’espèce seule est perpétuelle, tandis que les individus meurent ; le monde, au contraire, possède à la fois la perpétuité de la forme spécifique et celle de l’individualité. C’est qu’il joint à une Âme parfaite un corps que sa constitution…