Categoria: Enéada-III-6
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steiros
estéril So that “ receptacle ” and “ nurse ” are more proper terms for it [matter]; but “ mother ” is only used in a maimer of speaking, for matter itself brings forth nothing. But those people seem to call it “ mother ” who claim that the mother holds the position of matter…
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Bouillet: Tratado 26 (III, 6) – DE L’IMPASSIBILITÉ DES CHOSES INCORPORELLES
Ce livre comprend deux parties : 1° De l’impassibilité de l’âme ; 2° De l’impassibilité de la matière et de la forme. DE L’IMPASSIBILITÉ DE L’ÂME (I-III) Dans la sensation, il faut distinguer la passion et le jugement : la première appartient au corps : le second, à l’âme. Étant une essence inétendue et incorruptible,…
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Impassibilidade
Adicionemos que o Uno é impassível, que não poderia experimentar qualquer paixão: isso é verdade também para as duas outras hipóstases. Eis aí um dos dogmas universais do pensamento grego. Um dos tratados de Plotino (Eneada-III-6) recebeu de Porfírio o título: « da impassibilidade dos incorporais ». É também o caso da alma, abstração feita…
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MacKenna: Tratado 26,19 (III,6,19) — Em que sentido compreender que a matéria seja comparada a uma “mãe”
19. The Ideal Principles entering into Matter as to a Mother [to be “born into the Universe”] affect it neither for better nor for worse. Their action is not upon Matter but upon each other; these powers conflict with their opponent principles, not with their substrata – which it would be foolish to confuse with…
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MacKenna: Tratado 26,18 (III,6,18) — Sequência e fim do exame da grandeza material
18. The Ideal Principle possessing the Intellection [= Idea, Noesis] of Magnitude – assuming that this Intellection is of such power as not merely to subsist within itself but to be urged outward as it were by the intensity of its life – will necessarily realize itself in a Kind [= Matter] not having its…
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MacKenna: Tratado 26,17 (III,6,17) — Sequência do exame da grandeza material
17. Nor can we, on the other hand, think that matter is simply Absolute Magnitude. Magnitude is not, like Matter, a receptacle; it is an Ideal-Principle: it is a thing standing apart to itself, not some definite Mass. The fact is that the self-gathered content of the Intellectual Principle or of the All-Soul, desires expansion…
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MacKenna: Tratado 26,15 (III,6,15) — As formas estão na matéria como as representações na alma
15. Now the objects attracting the sun-rays to themselves – illuminated by a fire of the sense-order – are necessarily of the sense-order; there is perceptibility because there has been a union of things at once external to each other and continuous, contiguous, in direct contact, two extremes in one line. But the Reason-Principle operating…
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MacKenna: Tratado 26,14 (III,6,14) — Existência da matéria; interpretação alegórica do mito de Poros e Penia
14. But would this mean that if there were no Matter nothing would exist? Precisely as in the absence of a mirror, or something of similar power, there would be no reflection. A thing whose very nature is to be lodged in something else cannot exist where the base is lacking – and it is…
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MacKenna: Tratado 26,13 (III,6,13) — Em que sentido a matéria “foge da forma”
13. Further, they must explain in what sense they hold that Matter tends to slip away from its form [the Idea]. Can we conceive it stealing out from stones and rocks or whatever else envelops it? And of course they cannot pretend that Matter in some cases rebels and sometimes not. For if once it…