Categoria: Enéada-IV-9
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Guthrie: Tratado 8,3 (IV, 9, 3) – UNITY OF ALL BEINGS IMPLIED BY SYMPATHY, LOVE, AND MAGIC ENCHANTMENT
UNITY OF ALL BEINGS IMPLIED BY SYMPATHY, LOVE, AND MAGIC ENCHANTMENT. 3. On the other hand, observation teaches us that we sympathize with each other, that we cannot see the suffering of another man without sharing it, that we are naturally inclined to confide in each other, and to love; for love is a fact…
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Guthrie: Tratado 8,4 (IV, 9, 4) – THE UNITY OF THE SOULS IS A CONDITION OF THEIR MULTIPLICITY
THE UNITY OF THE SOULS IS A CONDITION OF THEIR MULTIPLICITY. 4. Such justifications will preclude surprise at our deriving all souls from unity. But completeness of treatment demands explanation how all souls are but a single one. Is this due to their proceeding from a single Soul, or because they all form a single…
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Guthrie: Tratado 8,5 (IV, 9, 5) – HOW AN ESSENCE CAN BE ONE IN A MULTITUDE OF SOULS IS ILLUSTRATED BY SEED
5. How can an essence be single in a multitude of souls? Either this one essence is entire in all souls, or this one and entire essence begets all souls while remaining (undiminished) in itself. In either case, the essence is single. It is the unity to which the individual souls are related; the essence…
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Brisson & Pradeau: partes da alma
BRISSON, Luc & PRADEAU, Jean-François. Plotin Traités 27-29. Paris: GF-Flammarion, 2005, p. 30. No capítulo 3 do Tratado-8 (Eneada-IV-9), Plotino já evocou o papel da faculdade vegetativa da alma do mundo. Ele adapta a seu respeito a distinção platônica dos três poderes da alma, revista e formulada em termos aristotélicos (a racional (logistikon), a irracional…