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| + | ===== PLOTINO - TRATADO 38,27 (VI, 7, 27) — O BEM É, PARA CADA REALIDADE, O QUE VEM ANTES DELA ===== | ||
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| + | 27. ¿Qué es, por tanto, lo que debe acontecer a un ser para que tenga lo que le conviene? Diremos que una cierta forma. Porque la materia ha de poseer una forma, lo mismo que el alma la virtud, que es para ella una forma. ¿Es esta forma un bien para el ser, dado que resulta algo apropiado para él, a lo que le empuja su deseo? Contestaremos negativamente. Porque lo semejante también es propio de un ser y el hecho de que lo quiera y se regocije con él no permite afirmar que posea su bien. No diremos, pues, que el bien de un ser es lo que es propio de este ser. En algo mejor hemos de pensar que en lo que le es propio; en algo superior ante lo cual ese ser es tan sólo un ser en potencia. Precisamente, | ||
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| + | La materia es la realidad más deficiente de todas y, después de ella, la forma última que le es más próxima. A partir de la materia tiéndese ya hacia lo alto. Si, pues, un ser tiene su bien en sí mismo, con mucha más razón serán su bien, su perfección y su forma y todo lo que es superior a él. La forma que es un bien para sí misma lo será igualmente para él, puesto que le hace bueno. Pero, ¿por qué ha de ser un bien para él? ¿No coincidiremos en decir que por ser lo más propio de él? Indudablemente que no; mas afirmaremos en cambio que ella es una parte del Bien. De ahí que cuanto más puro y mejor sea un ser más inclinación demuestre hacia sí mismo. Es absurdo, por tanto, el inquirir por qué el Bien, siendo como es un bien, lo es justamente para sí mismo. Porque, ¿cómo íbamos a pensar que tendría que salir de su propia naturaleza para encontrarse y que no podría hallar satisfacción consigo mismo? Nos preguntaremos si acaso en cuanto a la realidad absolutamente simple, esa realidad que no supone ya otra cosa, si es su bien la inclinación hacia sí misma. | ||
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| + | En el supuesto de que razonemos debidamente, | ||
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| + | XXVII. Que doit posséder chaque être pour avoir ce qui lui convient? — Une forme, répondrons-nous. Il convient à la matière d' | ||
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| + | Maintenant, si ce que nous venons de dire est juste, il s' | ||
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| + | A THING’S GOOD IS ITS FORM; OR, ITS INTIMACY WITH ITSELF. | ||
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| + | 27. What is the essential of a being’s nature? Form. Matter achieves (recognition) through its form; and a soul’s destiny is realized by the virtue which is its form. Next we may ask whether this form be a good for a being merely because it suits its (nature)? Does desire pursue that which is suitable to it, or not? No: a being is suited by its like; now, though a being seek and love its like, its possession does not imply the possession of its good. Are we then not implying that something is suitable to a being, on the strength of its being the good of that being? The determination of what is suitable to a being belongs to the superior Being of whom the lower being is a potentiality. When a being is the potentiality of some other, the being needs the other; now the Being which it needs because it is superior is, by that very fact, its good. Of all things matter is the most indigent, and the form suitable to it is the last of all; but, above it, one may gradually ascend. Consequently, | ||
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| + | PLEASURE MAY ACCOMPANY THE GOOD, BUT THE GOOD IS INDEPENDENT THEREOF. | ||
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| + | Now, if all that has been said be right, it is only a gradual upward analysis that reveals the good that is suitable to the nature of any being. Desire does not constitute the good, but is born from its presence. Those who acquire the good receive something from it. Pleasure accompanies the acquirement of good; but even should pleasure not accompany the good, the good should, none the less be chosen, and sought for its own sake. | ||
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| + | 27. But what is that whose entry supplies every such need? | ||
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| + | Some Idea, we maintain. There is a Form to which Matter aspires: to soul, moral excellence is this Form. | ||
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| + | But is this Form a good to the thing as being apt to it, does the striving aim at the apt? | ||
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| + | No: the aptest would be the most resemblant to the thing itself, but that, however sought and welcomed, does not suffice for the good: the good must be something more: to be a good to another a thing must have something beyond aptness; that only can be adopted as the good which represents the apt in its better form and is best to what is best in the quester' | ||
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| + | A thing is potentially that to which its nature looks; this, obviously, it lacks; what it lacks, of its better, is its good. Matter is of all that most in need; its next is the lowest Form; Form at lowest is just one grade higher than Matter. If a thing is a good to itself, much more must its perfection, its Form, its better, be a good to it; this better, good in its own nature, must be good also to the quester whose good it procures. | ||
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| + | But why should the Form which makes a thing good be a good to that thing? As being most appropriate? | ||
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| + | No: but because it is, itself, a portion of the Good. This is why the least alloyed and nearest to the good are most at peace within themselves. | ||
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| + | It is surely out of place to ask why a thing good in its own nature should be a good; we can hardly suppose it dissatisfied with its own goodness so that it must strain outside its essential quality to the good which it effectually is. | ||
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| + | There remains the question with regard to the Simplex: where there is utter absence of distinction does this self-aptness constitute the good to that Simplex? | ||
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| + | If thus far we have been right, the striving of the lower possesses itself of the good as of a thing resident in a certain Kind, and it is not the striving that constitutes the good but the good that calls out the striving: where the good is attained something is acquired and on this acquisition there follows pleasure. But the thing must be chosen even though no pleasure ensued; it must be desirable for its own sake. | ||
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