Categoria: Enéada-VI-2

VI. 2. 21 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) [How Noûs is many as well as one: we find number in the infinite extent of its powers, quality in its glorious beauty, quantity in the continuity of its activity; and from these with the help of the great Categories of Sameness and Otherness (see…

MacKenna: Tratado 43,22 (VI,2,22) — Os gêneros primeiros e suas espécies: vinda ao ser da multiplicidade no Intelecto (2)

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22. We may here adduce the pregnant words of Plato: “Inasmuch as Intellect perceives the variety and plurality of the Forms present in the complete Living Being….” The words apply equally to Soul; Soul is subsequent to Intellect, yet by its very nature it involves Intellect in itself and perceives more clearly in that prior.…

MacKenna: Tratado 43,21 (VI,2,21) — Os gêneros primeiros e suas espécies: vinda ao ser da multiplicidade no Intelecto

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21. How then does the universal Intellect produce the particulars while, in virtue of its Reason-Principle, remaining a unity? In other words, how do the various grades of Being, as we call them, arise from the four primaries? Here is this great, this infinite Intellect, not given to idle utterance but to sheer intellection, all-embracing,…

MacKenna: Tratado 43,20 (VI,2,20) — Os gêneros primeiros e suas espécies: o Intelecto universal e os intelectos particulares

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20. We may thus distinguish two phases of Intellect, in one of which it may be taken as having no contact whatever with particulars and no Act upon anything; thus it is kept apart from being a particular intellect. In the same way science is prior to any of its constituent species, and the specific…

MacKenna: Tratado 43,18 (VI,2,18) — Eliminar outros gêneros: o belo. As virtudes.

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18. To pass to the consideration of beauty: If by beauty we mean the primary Beauty, the same or similar arguments will apply here as to goodness: and if the beauty in the Ideal-Form is, as it were, an effulgence [from that primary Beauty], we may observe that it is not identical in all participants…

MacKenna: Tratado 43,17 (VI,2,17) — Eliminar outros gêneros: o bem

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17. Why are not beauty, goodness and the virtues, together with knowledge and intelligence, included among the primary genera? If by goodness we mean The First – what we call the Principle of Goodness, the Principle of which we can predicate nothing, giving it this name only because we have no other means of indicating…

MacKenna: Tratado 43,16 (VI,2,16) — Eliminar outros gêneros: a relação, o onde, o quando…

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16. As for Relation, manifestly an offshoot, how can it be included among primaries? Relation is of thing ranged against thing; it is not self-pivoted, but looks outward. Place and Date are still more remote from Being. Place denotes the presence of one entity within another, so that it involves a duality; but a genus…

MacKenna: Tratado 43,15 (VI,2,15) — Eliminar outros gêneros: a qualidade (2)

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15. How then do the four genera complete Substance without qualifying it or even particularizing it? It has been observed that Being is primary, and it is clear that none of the four – Motion, Stability, Difference, Identity – is distinct from it. That this Motion does not produce Quality is doubtless also clear, but…

MacKenna: Tratado 43,14 (VI,2,14) — Eliminar outros gêneros: a qualidade (1)

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