Categoria: Tratado 51 (I,8)

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 12 12. If the existence of Matter be denied, the necessity of this Principle must be demonstrated from the treatises “On Matter” where the question is copiously treated. To deny Evil a place among realities is necessarily to do away with the Good as well, and even to deny the existence of…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 11 11. It may be suggested that Vice is feebleness in the Soul. We shall be reminded that the Vicious Soul is unstable, swept along from every ill to every other, quickly stirred by appetites, headlong to anger, as hasty to compromises, yielding at once to obscure imaginations, as weak, in fact,…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 10 10. But if Matter is devoid of quality how can it be evil? It is described as being devoid of quality in the sense only that it does not essentially possess any of the qualities which it admits and which enter into it as into a substratum. No one says that…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 7 e Teeteto 7. But why does the existence of the Principle of Good necessarily comport the existence of a Principle of Evil? Is it because the All necessarily comports the existence of Matter? Yes: for necessarily this All is made up of contraries: it could not exist if Matter did not.…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 6 e Teeteto 6. If this be so, how do we explain the teaching that evils can never pass away but “exist of necessity,” that “while evil has no place in the divine order, it haunts mortal nature and this place for ever”? Does this mean that heaven is clear of evil,…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 5 5. But, it will be objected, if this seeing and frequenting of the darkness is due to the lack of good, the Soul’s evil has its source in that very lack; the darkness will be merely a secondary cause – and at once the Principle of Evil is removed from Matter,…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 3 3. If such be the Nature of Beings and of That which transcends all the realm of Being, Evil cannot have place among Beings or in the Beyond-Being; these are good. There remains, only, if Evil exist at all, that it be situate in the realm of Non-Being, that it be…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 1 2. For the moment let us define the nature of the Good as far as the immediate purpose demands. The Good is that on which all else depends, towards which all Existences aspire as to their source and their need, while Itself is without need, sufficient to Itself, aspiring to no…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 1 1. Those enquiring whence Evil enters into beings, or rather into a certain order of beings, would be making the best beginning if they established, first of all, what precisely Evil is, what constitutes its Nature. At once we should know whence it comes, where it has its native seat and…

VIDE Eneada-I, 8, 9 9. But what approach have we to the knowing of Good and Evil? And first of the Evil of soul: Virtue, we may know by the Intellectual-Principle and by means of the philosophic habit; but Vice? A a ruler marks off straight from crooked, so Vice is known by its divergence…

9. ¿Y con qué conocimos esos males? Y primero el vicio, ¿con qué lo conocimos? Porque la virtud sí la conocemos con la inteligencia misma y con la sabiduría, pues se conoce a sí misma. Pero el vicio, ¿cómo? Pues del mismo modo que con una regla conocemos lo que es rectilíneo y lo que…

B. BY WHAT PART OF OUR NATURE WE COME TO KNOW EVIL. HOW THE SOUL COMES TO KNOW VICE. 9. How do we get to know vice and virtue? As to virtue, we know it by the very intelligence and by wisdom; for wisdom knows itself. But how can we know vice? Just as we…

FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of the Nature and Origin of Evils. QUESTIONS TO BE DISCUSSED. 1. Studying the origin of evils that might affect all beings in general, or some one class in particular, it is reasonable to begin by defining evil, from a consideration of its nature. That would be the best way to…

1. Los que investigan de dónde provienen los males, sea que sobrevengan a los seres, sea que conciernan a una clase de seres, comenzarían su investigación adecuadamente si la basaran en el estudio previo de qué es el mal y cuál la naturaleza del mal. Porque de ese modo se conocería también de dónde proviene,…

First Ennead. Eighth tractate. On the nature and source of evil.

15 Pero si alguien niega que la materia exista, habrá que mostrarle la necesidad de su existencia basándose en nuestro tratado sobre la materia; allí este tema ha sido desarrollado más ampliamente. Pero si alguien negara que el mal exista en absoluto en la realidad de las cosas, se verá forzado a abolir aun el…