Tag: Thomas Taylor (1758-1835)
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Proclo: Teologia de Platão I-XXII
But in the Philebus, Plato delivers to us the three most principal elements of the good, viz. the desirable, the sufficient, and the perfect. For it is necessary that it should convert all things to itself, and fill all things, and that it should be in no respect deficient, and should not diminish its exuberance.…
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logismos
logismós: raciocínio, pensamento discursivo ver noesis. [Termos Filosóficos Gregos, F. E. Peters] Logismos, raciocínio. Quando aplicado à divindade como por Platão, no Timeu, significa uma causa distributiva das coisas. (Thomas Taylor)
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aletheia
Thomas Taylor Plato, following ancient theologists, considers truth multifariously. Hence, according to his doctrine, the highest truth is characterized by unity; and is the light proceeding from The Good, which imparts purity, as he says in the Philebus, and union, as he says in the Republic, to intelligibles. The truth which is next to this…
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Thomas Taylor: THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS I-5
Let us, however, return from whence we have digressed. For it seems that men do not unreasonably form an opinion of good and felicity from [the different kinds of] lives. The vulgar, indeed, and the most worthless part of mankind, place felicity in pleasure; and on this account they embrace the life which consists in…
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Taylor: Tratado 31 (V, 8) — Sobre a beleza inteligível
The following beautiful extract from the treatise of Plotinus, ” On intelligible beauty,” is a specimen of his manner of surveying all things, as subsisting without specific distinction in one supreme intellect. The whole of the extract likewise is the result of noera epibole, or intuition through the projecting energies of intellect. “All the Gods…
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Taylor: Tratado 10,12 (V, 1, 12) — Se nossa alma possui “coisas tão grandes”, porque permanece inerte e inativa?
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XII. How, therefore, does it happen, since we possess things of such great dignity, that we do not apprehend them, but for the most part are sluggish with respect to such like energies ? And there are some who do not energize about them at all. Intellect, indeed, and that which, prior to intellect, is…
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Thomas Taylor: Tratado 5,7 (V,9,7) — O Intelecto, as Formas e as ciências
VII. The sciences, however, of sensibles, which are in the rational soul, if it is proper to say that there are sciences of these, since the appellation adapted to them is that of opinion, in consequence of being posterior to sensible things, are the images of them. But the sciences of intelligibles, which are truly…
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Thomas Taylor: Tratado 2,7 (IV,7,7) — Se a alma fosse um corpo, não teria sensação (2)
VII. The same thing also may be seen from pain and the sensation of pain; when a man is said to have a pain in his finger or about his finger. For then it is manifest that the sensation of pain is produced about the principal or ruling part; a portion of the spirit being…
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Thomas Taylor: Tratado 45,1 (III,7,1) — Introdução
Eneada-III, 7, 1 I. With respect to eternity and time, we say that each of these is different from the other, and that one of them indeed is conversant with a perpetual nature, but the other about that which is generated. We also think that we have a certain clear perception of these in our…
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Thomas Taylor: Dialectic. Note to Enneads I, 3
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For the sake of the truly philosophic reader who may not have my translation of Plato in his possession, the following additional observations on that master science, dialectic, are extracted from the 3rd volume of that translation, and principally from the notes on the Parmenides. The method of reasoning employed by the dialectic of Plato,…