Categoria: Enéada-VI-3
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,18 (VI,3,18) — Quais divisões introduzir na qualidade sensível?
18. These problems at any rate all serve to show that, while in general it is necessary to look for differences by which to separate things from each other, to hunt for differences of the differences themselves is both futile and irrational. We cannot have substances of substances, quantities of quantities, qualities of qualities, differences…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,17 (VI,3,17) — Quais divisões introduzir na qualidade sensível?
Resumo em português 17. This procedure, if approved, will entail a distinction between psychic and bodily qualities, the latter belonging specifically to body. If we decide to refer all souls to the higher, we are still at liberty to perform for Sensible qualities a division founded upon the senses themselves – the eyes, the ears,…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,15 (VI,3,15) — O igual e o desigual são o próprio da quantidade
Resumo em português 15. How far is it true that equality and inequality are characteristic of Quantity? Triangles, it is significant, are said to be similar rather than equal. But we also refer to magnitudes as similar, and the accepted connotation of similarity does not exclude similarity or dissimilarity in Quantity. It may, of course,…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,14 (VI,3,14) — Sobre a figura
Eneada-VI-3-14|Resumo em português 14. How are we to classify the straight line? Shall we deny that it is a magnitude? The suggestion may be made that it is a qualified magnitude. May we not, then, consider straightness as a differentia of “line”? We at any rate draw on Quality for differentiae of Substance. The straight…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,13 (VI,3,13) — Sobre o número
Resumo em português 13. It has been remarked that the continuous is effectually distinguished from the discrete by their possessing the one a common, the other a separate, limit. The same principle gives rise to the numerical distinction between odd and even; and it holds good that if there are differentiae found in both contraries,…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,12 (VI,3,12) — O discurso pertence não à quantidade, mas ao movimento
Resumo em português 12. It follows that we must allow contrariety to Quantity: whenever we speak of great and small, our notions acknowledge this contrariety by evolving opposite images, as also when we refer to many and few; indeed, “few” and “many” call for similar treatment to “small” and “great.” “Many,” predicated of the inhabitants…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,10 (VI,3,10) — Divisão da realidade sensível em espécies: novos critérios
Resumo em português 10. Another method of division is possible: substances may be classed as hot-dry, dry-cold, cold-moist, or however we choose to make the coupling. We may then proceed to the combination and blending of these couples, either halting at that point and going no further than the compound, or else subdividing by habitation…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,9 (VI,3,9) — Divisão da realidade sensível em espécies: Critérios
Resumo em português 9. So much for one of the genera – the “Substance,” so called, of the Sensible realm. But what are we to posit as its species? how divide this genus? The genus as a whole must be identified with body. Bodies may be divided into the characteristically material and the organic: the…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,8 (VI,3,8) — A realidade sensível não é senão uma sombra da realidade inteligível
Resumo em português 8. The division into elements must, in short, be abandoned, especially in regard to Sensible Substance, known necessarily by sense rather than by reason. We must no longer look for help in constituent parts, since such parts will not be substances, or at any rate not sensible substances. Our plan must be…
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MacKenna: Tratado 44,7 (VI,3,7) — Análise aristotélica da realidade em forma, matéria e misto
Resumo em português 7. But Matter, it may be contended, is the source of existence to the Sensible things implanted in it. From what source, then, we retort, does Matter itself derive existence and being? That Matter is not a Primary we have established elsewhere. If it be urged that other things can have no…