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| + | ===== PLOTINO - TRATADO 34,11 (VI, 6, 11) — A DÉCADA EM SI NÃO É SENÃO UM CONJUNTO DE UNIDADES ===== | ||
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| + | 11. Podría argüirse quizá que la década no es otra cosa que una repetición determinada de la unidad. Pero si se concede realidad a la unidad, ¿por qué no conceder también que puede darse, no sólo una unidad, sino incluso diez? ¿Cómo admitir la existencia para una unidad y no para las otras? No convendría seguramente uncir una unidad a cada uno de los seres, porque en ese caso no acontecería que cada ser fuese uno. Si conviene, pues, que cada uno de los seres sea uno, admitiremos entonces una unidad común. He aquí una naturaleza única que se afirma de varias cosas; de ella decimos que debe existir en sí misma antes de hacerse visible en una pluralidad. Si la unidad se da en una cosa y luego de nuevo en otra, habrá que admitir que no es una sola unidad la que posee la existencia, sino una pluralidad de ellas; o si sólo se estima como existente la primera unidad, la daremos como unida, bien al ser absoluto, bien al Uno absoluto. En el primer caso, las otras unidades tendrán de común el nombre con la primera, pero no podrán ordenarse con ella; y así, el número se compondrá de unidades no semejantes y éstas a su vez manifestarán diferencias en tanto que unidades. En el segundo caso, ¿podría suponerse que el Uno absoluto tenga necesidad de esta unidad para ser uno? Si los dos casos resultan imposibles, necesariamente se dará un uno que sea tan sólo y simplemente el uno, esto es, que aparezca separado de todo por su misma esencia, antes incluso de que se le haya dicho, y ni siquiera pensado, referido a una cosa. Si el uno tiene existencia real en este mundo, prescindiendo del objeto al que se aplique, ¿por qué no podrá venir también a la existencia una nueva unidad? De existir separadamente, | ||
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| + | XI. Mais, dira-t-on peut-être, la décade n'est autre chose que dix unités. — Si l'on accorde que l'un existe, pourquoi ne pas reconnaître aussi l' | ||
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| + | UNITY MUST EXIST IN THE INTELLIGIBLE BEFORE BEING APPLIED TO MULTIPLE BEINGS. | ||
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| + | 11. It may be objected that the decad is nothing else than ten unities. If the existence of the One be granted, why should we not also grant the existence of ten unities? Since the supreme Unity (the unity of the first Essence), possesses hypostatic existence, why should the case not be the same with the other unities (the complex unities contained within each of the essences) ? It must not be supposed that the supreme Unity is bound up with a single essence; for in this case each of the other (beings) would no longer be one. If each of the other (beings) must be one, then unity is common to all the (beings); that is that single nature which may be predicated of the multiple (beings), and which must, as we have explained it, subsist in itself (in the primary essence) before the unity which resides in the multiple (beings). | ||
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| + | THE SUPREME UNITY ADJUSTS ALL LOWER GROUP UNITIES. | ||
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| + | As unity is seen in some one (being), and then in some other, if the second unity possess hypostatic existence also, then the supreme Unity (of the first Essence) will not alone possess hypostatic existence, and there will be thus a multitude of unities (as there is a multitude of beings). If the hypostatic existence of the first Unity be alone acknowledged, | ||
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| + | 11. It may be suggested that the decad is nothing more than so many henads; admitting the one henad why should we reject the ten? As the one is a real existence why not the rest? We are certainly not compelled to attach that one henad to some one thing and so deprive all the rest of the means to unity: since every existent must be one thing, the unity is obviously common to all. This means one principle applying to many, the principle whose existence within itself we affirmed to be presupposed by its manifestation outside. | ||
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| + | But if a henad exists in some given object and further is observed in something else, then that first henad being real, there cannot be only one henad in existence; there must be a multiplicity of henads. | ||
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| + | Supposing that first henad alone to exist, it must obviously be lodged either in the thing of completest Being or at all events in the thing most completely a unity. If in the thing of completest Being, then the other henads are but nominal and cannot be ranked with the first henad, or else Number becomes a collection of unlike monads and there are differences among monads . If that first henad is to be taken as lodged in the thing of completest unity, there is the question why that most perfect unity should require the first henad to give it unity. | ||
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| + | Since all this is impossible, then, before any particular can be thought of as a unit, there must exist a unity bare, unrelated by very essence. If in that realm also there must be a unity apart from anything that can be called one thing, why should there not exist another unity as well? | ||
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| + | Each particular, considered in itself, would be a manifold of monads, totalling to a collective unity. If however Nature produces continuously - or rather has produced once for all - not halting at the first production but bringing a sort of continuous unity into being, then it produces the minor numbers by the sheer fact of setting an early limit to its advance: outgoing to a greater extent - not in the sense of moving from point to point but in its inner changes - it would produce the larger numbers; to each number so emerging it would attach the due quantities and the appropriate thing, knowing that without this adaptation to Number the thing could not exist or would be a stray, something outside, at once, of both Number and Reason. | ||
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