Categoria: Enéada-VI-2
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MacKenna: Tratado 43,15 (VI,2,15) — Eliminar outros gêneros: a qualidade (2)
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…
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Nous e Categorias
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…
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MacKenna: Tratado 43,14 (VI,2,14) — Eliminar outros gêneros: a qualidade (1)
14. Why is Quality, again, not included among the Primaries? Because like Quantity it is a posterior, subsequent to Substance. Primary Substance must necessarily contain Quantity and Quality as its consequents; it cannot owe its subsistence to them, or require them for its completion: that would make it posterior to Quality and Quantity. Now in…
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Tratado 43 (VI, 2) – As categorias de Plotino
Plotin Traités 42-44. Traductions sous la direction de Luc Brisson et Jena-François Pradeau VIDE [:Tratado-42]], do qual este é a continuação. A seguir versões em inglês, francês e espanhol do tratado. Para uma apresentação mais detalhada do tratado, por parágrafo ou capítulo, com comentários visite Eneada-VI-2.
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MacKenna: Tratado 43,12 (VI,2,12) — Eliminar outros gêneros: o uno-ser (4)
12. Enough upon that side of the question. But how does the perfection [goodness] of numbers, lifeless things, depend upon their particular unity? Just as all other inanimates find their perfection in their unity. If it should be objected that numbers are simply non-existent, we should point out that our discussion is concerned [not with…