Categoria: Enéada-III-1
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Guthrie: Tratado 3,3 (III,1,3) — Refutação da opinião dos epicuristas
THE PHYSICAL THEORIES ARE ABSURD. 3. To refer everything to physical causes, whether you call them atoms or elements, and from their disordered motion to deduce order, reason and the soul that directs (the body), is absurd and impossible; nevertheless, to deduce everything from atoms, is, if possible, still more impossible; and consequently many valid…
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Guthrie: Tratado 3,2 (III,1,2) — As causas distantes, exame e refutação das diferentes opiniões
PROXIMATE CAUSES ARE UNSATISFACTORY; WE MUST SEEK THE ULTIMATE ONES. 2. To stop, on arriving at these causes, and to refuse further analysis, is to exhibit superficiality. This is against the advice of the sages, who advise ascending to the primary causes, to the supreme principles. For example, why, during the full moon, should the…
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Guthrie: Tratado 3,1 (III,1,1) — Todas as coisas têm ou não uma causa?
POSSIBLE THEORIES ABOUT FATE. 1. The first possibility is that there is a cause both for the things that become, and those that are; the cause of the former being their becoming, and that of the latter, their existence. Again, neither of them may have a cause. Or, in both cases, some may have a…
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MacKenna: Tratado 3,10 (III,1,10) — Há duas espécies de causas, a alma e as causas exteriores
10. To sum the results of our argument: All things and events are foreshown and brought into being by causes; but the causation is of two Kinds; there are results originating from the Soul and results due to other causes, those of the environment. In the action of our Souls all that is done of…
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MacKenna: Tratado 3,9 (III,1,9) — Sob o domínio do exterior, a alma não age voluntariamente
9. We admit, then, a Necessity in all that is brought about by this compromise between evil and accidental circumstance: what room was there for anything else than the thing that is? Given all the causes, all must happen beyond aye or nay – that is, all the external and whatever may be due to…
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MacKenna: Tratado 3,8 (III,1,8) — A alma, a do universo e a do indivíduo, é a causa distante
8. What can this other cause be; one standing above those treated of; one that leaves nothing causeless, that preserves sequence and order in the Universe and yet allows ourselves some reality and leaves room for prediction and augury? Soul: we must place at the crest of the world of beings, this other Principle, not…
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MacKenna: Tratado 3,7 (III,1,7) — A opinião estoica do encadeamento das causas
7. It remains to notice the theory of the one Causing-Principle alleged to interweave everything with everything else, to make things into a chain, to determine the nature and condition of each phenomenon – a Principle which, acting through seminal Reason-Forms – Logoi Spermatikoi – elaborates all that exists and happens. The doctrine is close…
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MacKenna: Tratado 3,6 (III,1,6) — Refutação da opinião dos astrólogos (cont.)
6. But in fact everything follows its own Kind; the birth is a horse because it comes from the Horse Kind, a man by springing from the Human Kind; offspring answers to species. Allow the kosmic circuit its part, a very powerful influence upon the thing brought into being: allow the stars a wide material…
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MacKenna: Tratado 3,5 (III,1,5) — Refutação da opinião dos astrólogos
5. But perhaps the explanation of every particular act or event is rather that they are determined by the spheric movement – the Phora – and by the changing position of the heavenly bodies as these stand at setting or rising or in mid-course and in various aspects with each other. Augury, it is urged,…
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MacKenna: Tratado 3,4 (III,1,4) — Refutação da opinião de causas incorporais
4. Another theory: The Universe is permeated by one Soul, Cause of all things and events; every separate phenomenon as a member of a whole moves in its place with the general movement; all the various causes spring into action from one source: therefore, it is argued, the entire descending claim of causes and all…