Categoria: Enéada-III-8
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Enéada III, 8 – Sobre a contemplação
Plotin Traités 30-37. Dir. Trad. Luc Brisson e Jean-François Pradeau. GF-Flammarion, 2006 O objeto do tratado é a demonstração da tese segundo a qual tudo contempla. A demonstração desta tese demanda ao mesmo tempo uma definição da contemplação e uma prova pelo exemplo: Plotino se atém portanto a mostrar como cada realidade, da última à…
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Gnosticismo
Vide Sophia Perennis A crítica do gnosticismo, que ocupa antes de tudo os tratados 30, 31, 32, 33, desempenha um papel decisivo na economia filosófica da obra plotiniana. O gnosticismo invocava uma distinção e um conflito entre dois agentes divinos, um bom e um mau, para dar conta do mal e do irracional no universo.…
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MacKenna: Tratado 30,8 (III,8,8) — O intelecto é a primeira contemplação vivente
8. From this basis we proceed: In the advancing stages of Contemplation rising from that in Nature, to that in the Soul and thence again to that in the Intellectual-Principle itself – the object contemplated becomes progressively a more and more intimate possession of the Contemplating Beings, more and more one thing with them; and…
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MacKenna: Tratado 30,5 (III,8,5) — A parte superior da alma contempla
5. This discussion of Nature has shown us how the origin of things is a Contemplation: we may now take the matter up to the higher Soul; we find that the Contemplation pursued by this, its instinct towards knowing and enquiring, the birth pangs set up by the knowledge it attains, its teeming fullness, have…
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Guthrie: Tratado 30,8-11 (III, 8, 8-11) – Of Unity
THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. OF NATURE, CONTEMPLATION AND UNITY. C. OF UNITY. THE DIFFERENT GRADES OF THOUGHT AND LIFE. LIKE A CIRCLE, INTELLIGENCE IS INSEPARABLY SINGLE AND MANIFOLD. TO THE INTELLIGENCE THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY IS THE INTELLIGIBLE THERE MUST BE A SUPREME. THE BEGETTER OF INTELLIGENCE MUST BE SIMPLER THAN IT, AND IS REACHED NOT BY…
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Guthrie: Tratado 30,5-7 (III, 8, 5-7) – Of Contemplation
THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity. (These three subjects are discussed in paragraphs 1-4, 5-7, and 8-16. The plain paragraph numbers, are those of the Teubner edition; those in parenthesis are the Creuzer (Didot) edition.) B. CONTEMPLATION. THE PROCESSION OF THE WORLD-SOUL. PRACTICE IS ONLY A PREPARATION FOR CONTEMPLATION. THIS CONTEMPLATION IS…
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Guthrie: Tratado 30,1-4 (III, 8, 1-4) – Of Nature
THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. OF NATURE, CONTEMPLATION AND UNITY. (These three subjects are discussed in paragraphs 1-4, 5-7, and 8-16. The plain paragraph numbers, are those of the Teubner edition; those in parenthesis are the Creuzer (Didot) edition.) A. OF NATURE. INTRODUCTION: AS A JOKE, IT MAY BE SAID THAT EVEN PLANTS ASPIRE TO CONTEMPLATION.…
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Guthrie: Tratado 30 (III, 8) – Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity.
THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity. A. OF NATURE. INTRODUCTION: AS A JOKE, IT MAY BE SAID THAT EVEN PLANTS ASPIRE TO CONTEMPLATION. ENUMERATION OF THE LOWER FORMS OF CONTEMPLATION. NATURE ACTS ON MATTER NOT MECHANICALLY BUT BY ITS POTENCY. NATURE IS IMMOVABLE AS A FORM, BUT NOT AS COMPOUND OF MATTER…
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Deus
Para Plotino a característica primeira do Uno, denominado por vezes Deus, theos, de maneira absoluta, como o Pai de Orígenes, é que ele é o princípio supremo de onde então decorrem a Inteligência e a Alma do Mundo, em seguida todos o seres do Universo. O sexto tratado visualiza para em seguida rejeitar a hipótese…
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5 THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of Nature, Contemplation, and of the One.
OF THOUGHT. 12. (1) Thought is not the same everywhere; it differs according to the nature of every “being.” In intelligence, it is intellectual; in the soul it is rational; in the plant it is seminal; last, it is superior to intelligence and existence in the principle that surpasses all these. OF LIFE. 13. (7)…