Categoria: Enéada-III-8
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Guthrie: Tratado 30,5 (III, 8, 5) — THE PROCESSION OF THE WORLD-SOUL
THE PROCESSION OF THE WORLD-SOUL. 5. (4). After having spoken of nature, and having explained how generation is a sort of contemplation, let us pass to the Soul that occupies a rank superior to nature. This is what we have to say about her. By her contemplative action, by her ardent desire to learn and…
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Guthrie: Tratado 30,4 (III, 8, 4) — NATURE’S CONFESSION THAT HER MOTHER IS UNIVERSAL REASON
NATURE’S CONFESSION THAT HER MOTHER IS UNIVERSAL REASON, AND HER FATHER THE FORMAL REASONS. 4. (3). If anybody were to ask nature why she produces, Nature, if at all willing to listen and answer would say, “You should not have questioned me; you should have tried to understand, keeping silence, as I do; for I…
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Guthrie: Tratado 30,3 (III, 8, 3) — BOTH NATURE AND REASON ARE CONTEMPLATION
BOTH NATURE AND REASON ARE CONTEMPLATION; WHILE UNIVERSAL REASON IS BOTH SOUL AND NATURE. 3. (2). How does nature produce? And how, in producing, does she arrive at contemplation ? Since she produces while remaining immovable within herself, and as she is a “reason,” she is a contemplation also. Indeed, every action is produced according…
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Guthrie: Tratado 30,2 (III, 8, 2) — NATURE ACTS ON MATTER
NATURE ACTS ON MATTER NOT MECHANICALLY BUT BY ITS POTENCY. 2. Evidently nature possesses neither hands, nor feet, nor any natural or artificial instrument. For production its only need is a matter on which to work, and which it forms. The works of nature exclude all ideas of mechanical operation; not by any impelling force,…
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Guthrie: Tratado 30,1 (III, 8, 1) — EVEN PLANTS ASPIRE TO CONTEMPLATION
INTRODUCTION: AS A JOKE, IT MAY BE SAID THAT EVEN PLANTS ASPIRE TO CONTEMPLATION. 1. If as a preliminary pleasantry, we said that all beings, not only reasonable ones, but even the irrational, plants as well as the earth that begets them, aspire to contemplation, and are directed towards that end; that, as a result…
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Igal: Tratado 30 (III, 8) — Sinopse
SINOPSE I. Tesis. – Todos los seres, de diverso modo y en diverso grado, aspiran a la contemplación, y todas las acciones se afanan por ella (1, 1-18). II. La naturaleza (1, 18-4, 47). 1. Problema: ¿cómo puede ser contemplativa la actividad productiva de la tierra?, ¿cómo puede ser contemplativa la Naturaleza, si carece de…
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Igal: Tratado 30 (III, 8) — Sobre a Natureza, a Contemplação e o Uno
Por su originalidad y profundidad, el presente tratado es uno de los favoritos de los estudiosos de Plotino Ya hemos indicado repetidamente que, originariamente, formaba parte de un magno escrito antignóstico del segundo período (Vida 5, 26-34), constituido por cuatro tratados arbitrariamente distribuidos en la edición porfiriana: III 8, V 8, V 5 y II…
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O Bem
Plotino argumenta em Enéada III, 8, 9, 1-13 que posto que o Noûs tem uma necessidade de ver e de agir, relaciona-se a um princípio mais alto, em respeito ao qual e devido ao qual vê e age; este princípio é o Bem (que é o mesmo que o Uno, como afirmado em Enéada III,…
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Soul in its Activity in the Sense-world (V)
III. 8. 5 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) [The activity of the higher Soul and the emanation of Nature from it. Unity of contemplation and action in every phase of the soul’s activity.] In speaking of Nature we have seen in what way its generative activity is contemplation. Now, going on to the…
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Soul in its Activity in the Sense-world (IV)
III. 8. 4 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) [The dream-like contemplation of Nature (the Lower Soul), which produces the material universe: all action springs from contemplation.] If anyone asked Nature why it makes, if it cared to hear and answer the questioner it would say, ‘ You ought not to ask, but to…