Tag: kosmos aisthetos

  • Porfírio (Commentarios Tratado 23) – The One and Identical Being is everywhere present in its entirety

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    VIDE Eneada-VI-5 THE INCORPOREAL BEING IS ENTIRE IN EVERYTHING. 40. Better to express the special nature of incorporeal existence the ancient philosophers, particularly Parmenides, do not content themselves with saying “it is one,” but they also add “and all,” just as a sense-object is a whole. But as this unity of the sense-object contains a…

  • Uzdavinys (2004-65-67) – duas ordens de realidade (ser e devir)

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    For Plato, philosophy was a practice of and for death; a discipline of immortality aimed at the purification and separation of the soul—which was no longer regarded as the illusory phantom (eidolon) of the body, but as the immortal psuche—and which was now considered as the very essence of the being. By shifting the emphasis from the…

  • Soul in its Activity in the Sense-world (V)

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    III. 8. 5 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) (The activity of the higher Soul and the emanation of Nature from it. Unity of contemplation and action in every phase of the soul’s activity.) In speaking of Nature we have seen in what way its generative activity is contemplation. Now, going on to the…

  • Soul in its Activity in the Sense-world (VI)

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    IV. 4. 14 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) (The forms in body, which make bodily things what they are, are distinct from Nature, a kind of external irradiation or warming proceeding from it; they mark the very last stage in the evolution of reality.) As for the bodies which are said to be…

  • Soul in its Activity in the Sense-world (II)

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    IV. 4. 11 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads AP) (The universe is a single living being, and soul rules it from within, not from outside, like nature in the process of healing, not like a doctor. Its wise guidance of the whole is a single, simple immanent activity, without reasoning or calculation.) The…

  • Soul in its Activity in the Sense-world (IV)

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    III. 8. 4 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) (The dream-like contemplation of Nature (the Lower Soul), which produces the material universe: all action springs from contemplation.) If anyone asked Nature why it makes, if it cared to hear and answer the questioner it would say, ‘ You ought not to ask, but to…

  • Soul in its Activity in the Sense-world (III)

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    II. 3. 17-18 (Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads) (It is the lowest phase of soul which makes material things; this it does without conscious thought, receiving the forms which it imprints from Nous. Nous is thus the ultimate creative principle of the material universe, which is the last and lowest of existences, but…