Platão e platonismo

Categoria: John N. Deck

Nature, Contemplation, and the One. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967

  • Deck (1991:135-137) – Noûs e psyche

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    Positively, it can be shown that, granted the outlines of Plotinus’ view of the world, there must be intermediaries between the Noûs and the sensible world. And vet it must be admitted that, as our insight into the nature of soul progressively deepens, there seems to be a danger that soul, in the real order,…

  • Being (Deck)

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    Is the One “Being” at all? Plotinus says that the One is “beyond being.” What is “beyond being,” someone might think, is the non-existent. Thus arises the “problem”: does the One exist? Rist’s solution is that, since being means for Plotinus finite being, Plotinus’ One is beyond finite being, is infinite being and so is…

  • Deck (1991:147-149) – physis

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    “Physis,” the Greek word commonly translated “nature,” is derived from the root phy- by the addition of the nominal suffix -sis. “Physis” is connected with phyein “make to grow,” phyesthai “grow,” ho phus “offspring,” and to phyton “plant.” In view of these affinities, “physis” might be taken to mean radically, “growing,” “growth,” or “principle of…

  • Deck (1991:149) – theoria

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    Apparently, the original meaning of “theoria,” (theoria), which came to mean “contemplation,” was the sending of state ambassadors (theoroi) to the oracles and games; theoros, in turn, has an uncertain derivation, but seems to be connected with then, “seeing, looking at.” A theoros would have been an official see-er, a looker-on at the games. Thea,…

  • Deck (1991:23-24) – O Noûs demanda a existência do Uno enquanto seu princípio e bem

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    Such is the Noûs. Thus it is not the first, but there must be that which is beyond it (our preceding discussion was for the sake of this), first of all, because multitude is posterior to one, and multitude is number, while the One is the principle of number and of multitude. And this is…

  • Deck (1991:83-84) – Natureza

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    Segundo John N. Deck, Plotino usa a palavra physis («natureza») em vários sentidos, que são necessariamente, mas facilmente, distinguidos. Em um sentido geral, a natureza pode significar a «constituição» de uma coisa ou um princípio. Este é o sentido do termo no qual Plotino pode se referir à natureza do corpo (Enéada III.6.6), a natureza…

  • Deck (137-139) – poiesis

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    In short, the world can be viewed truly as Noûs. It can be viewed relatively truly as soul, as nature, as sensible. All of these aspects, which Plotinus sees, are in the world. The Noûs and the intermediaries are more than logically distinct. In all the ways the world can be thought, so it is.…

  • Damiani: O Uno

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    Buscando por meio destas passagens um vislumbre da natureza incompreensível do Uno, o intelecto deve ser como um pássaro que voando através do ar não deixa traços: a operação do intelecto deve se dissolver na quietude dentro da qual avança. Devemos pensar intensamente no que é a natureza do Uno, e então há um ponto…

  • Deck (1991:19-22) – Contemplação

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    Enéada III,8 começa com um ensinamento que é, e pretende ser, inovador e chocante. A Natureza contempla. A natureza em árvores, plantas, e a terra contemplam. Além do mais, a natureza produz árvores, plantas e a terra pela contemplação. A contemplação é assim produtiva — produtiva de realidades substanciais e concretas. Examinar a doutrina de…