Categoria: Tratado 4 (IV,2)

Este tratado é a sequência do Tratado-2, do qual prossegue a conclusão propondo uma definição da alma. Como os últimos capítulos do Tratado-2 lhe deram a ocasião, Plotino diz aqui da alma que ela é uma realidade indivisível, incorruptível e imortal. Esta tese é defendida com a autoridade platônica do Timeu, no qual Platão tinha…

The Fourth Ennead Second tractate. On the essence of the soul (2).

2. La naturaleza del alma, pues, ha de ser tal que no pueda haber al lado de ella ni un alma que sea sólo indivisible, o sólo divisible, debiendo contar necesariamente con estas dos propiedades. Porque si el alma, al igual que los cuerpos, tuviese partes distintas en lugares también diferentes, cuando una de sus…

SOUL AS BOTH ESSENTIALLY DIVISIBLE AND INDIVISIBLE. 2. Such then the nature of the soul had to be. She could not be either purely indivisible, nor purely divisible, but she necessarily had to be both indivisible and divisible, as has just been set forth. This is further proved by the following considerations. If the soul,…

II. That it is necessary, however, that the nature of soul should be a thing of this kind, and that it is not possible for soul to be any thing besides this, being neither alone impartible, nor alone partible, but that it is necessarily after this manner both these, is manifest from the following considerations.…

I. In investigating the essence of soul, if we show that it is neither body, nor the harmony in incorporeal natures; and likewise if we omit what is said of its being the entelecheia,1 or perfection of the body, as not true, as the words (taken literally) imply, and as not manifesting what the soul…

2. It can be demonstrated that soul must, necessarily, be of just this nature and that there can be no other soul than such a being, one neither wholly partible but both at once. If it had the nature of body it would consist of isolated members each unaware of the conditions of every other;…

1. In our attempt to elucidate the Essence of the soul, we show it to be neither a material fabric nor, among immaterial things, a harmony. The theory that it is some final development, some entelechy, we pass by, holding this to be neither true as presented nor practically definitive. No doubt we make a…