Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 1-8) – Alma do Mundo e Alma Individual (Guthrie)

FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK THREE.
Psychological Questions.

A. ARE NOT ALL SOULS PARTS OR EMANATIONS OF A SINGLE SOUL ?

  • psychology obeys the precept “know thyself,” and shows how we are temples of the divinity.
  • are individual souls emanations of the universal soul?
  • conformity to the universal soul implies that they are not parts of her.
  • limitations to the use of the term “parts,” in physical things.
  • when applied to incorporeal things, “parts” have different senses.
  • such mathematical senses cannot be applied to the soul.
  • actual division into parts would be tantamount to a denial of the whole.
  • nor is the soul a part in the sense that one proposition is a part of a science.
  • the difference of functions of the world-soul and individual souls makes entire division between them impossible.
  • are individual souls part of the world-soul as is the local consciousness of some part of the body to the whole consciousness?
  • study of the question by observation of the human organism.
  • intellectual difficulty of the soul being one and yet in all beings.
  • the healthy soul can work, the sick soul is devoted to her body.
  • souls retain both their unity and differences on different levels.
  • souls develop manifoldness just as intelligence does.
  • why should creation be predicated of the universal soul and not of the human?
  • the world-soul alone creates because she remains nearest the intelligible world.
  • difference between individual and universal souls.
  • sympathy between individual and universal soul comes from common source.
  • difference between souls.
  • like the divinity, the soul is always one.
  • soul powers remain the same throughout all changes of body.
GUTHRIE, K. S. Plotinus: Complete Works: In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods. [single Volume, Unabridged]. [s.l.] CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
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