Categoria: Enéada-VI-8
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tolma
gr. τόλμα, tolma = audácia; o principal motivo da descida da alma no pensamento de Plotino. Le terme tólma, « audace », et les mots qui en sont dérivés, peuvent avoir chez Plotin deux fonctions opposées qui apparaissent d’ailleurs toutes deux dans ce traité. L’audace peut, comme ici, avoir une fonction positive : il s’agit…
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Bouillet: Tratado 39 (VI, 8) – DE LA LIBERTÉ ET DE LA VOLONTÉ DE L’UN
(I) Pour déterminer ce que sont en Dieu la liberté et la toute-puissance, il faut commencer par examiner en quoi consistent notre liberté et notre volonté. On appelle volontaire ce que nous faisons sans contrainte, avec conscience de le faire; dépendant de nous, ce que nous sommes maîtres de faire ou de ne pas faire.…
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Liberdade
VI. 8. 15 (Armstrong Selection and Translation) [We know that the One is altogether outside the realm of chance because we are aware of something in ourselves which transcends chance by the power of Its light; and when we attain to that and become it and put away all else we are more than free,…
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MacKenna: Tratado 39,21 (VI,8,21) — O Bem é “inteiramente vontade”
Resumo em português 21. Could He then have made Himself otherwise than as He did? If He could we must deny Him the power to produce goodness for He certainly cannot produce evil. Power, There, is no producer of the inapt; it is that steadfast constant which is most decidedly power by inability to depart…
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Enéada VI,8,21 — O Bem é “inteiramente vontade”
Capítulo 21: Conclusão: o Bem é “inteiramente vontade” 1-10: O Bem não podia se produzir ele mesmo outro do que é 10-20: Há perfeita identidade entre a vontade e a realidade do Bem 20-25: Comentário da expressão “se conter a si mesmo” 25-33: Conclusão do tratado: para alcançar o Bem, é preciso “desprender-se de todas…
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MacKenna: Tratado 39,20 (VI,8,20) — Duas aporias relativas à auto-produção do Bem
Resumo em português 20. The difficulty will be raised that God would seem to have existed before thus coming into existence; if He makes Himself, then in regard to the self which He makes He is not yet in being and as maker He exists before this Himself thus made. The answer is that we…
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MacKenna: Tratado 39,19 (VI,8,19) — Superioridade da contemplação direta do Bem
Resumo em português 19. Stirred to the Supreme by what has been told, a man must strive to possess it directly; then he too will see, though still unable to tell it as he would wish. One seeing That as it really is will lay aside all reasoning upon it and simply state it as…
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MacKenna: Tratado 39,18 (VI,8,18) — Imagens e expressões que significam aquilo que é o Bem
Resumo em português 18. Seeking Him, seek nothing of Him outside; within is to be sought what follows upon Him; Himself do not attempt. He is, Himself, that outer, He the encompassment and measure of all things; or rather He is within, at the innermost depth; the outer, circling round Him, so to speak, and…
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MacKenna: Tratado 39,17 (VI,8,17) — Sequência da refutação da existência “por azar” do Bem
Resumo em português 17. Or consider it another way: We hold the universe, with its content entire, to be as all would be if the design of the maker had so willed it, elaborating it with purpose and prevision by reasonings amounting to a Providence. All is always so and all is always so reproduced:…
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MacKenna: Tratado 39,16 (VI,8,16) — Exposição dos atributos positivos do Bem
Resumo em português 16. We maintain, and it is evident truth, that the Supreme is everywhere and yet nowhere; keeping this constantly in mind let us see how it bears on our present enquiry. If God is nowhere, then not anywhere has He “happened to be”; as also everywhere, He is everywhere in entirety: at…