Tag: Thomas Taylor (1758-1835)
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Proclo: Teologia de Platão I-XVI
Again, from another principle we may be able to apprehend the theological demonstrations in the Republic. For these are common to all the divine orders, similarly extend to all the discussion about the Gods, and unfold to us truth in uninterrupted connection with what has been before said. In the second book of the Republic…
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY AND WRITINGS OF PLATO
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Excertos do texto oferecido pelo Project Gutenberg EBook of Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato, by Thomas Taylor “Philosophy,” says Hierocles, “is the purification and perfection of human life. It is the purification, indeed, from material irrationality, and the mortal body; but the perfection, in consequence of being the resumption of our proper…
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aidios
aídios: perpétuo, perduração no tempo (aidios kata chronon) Aquilo que subsiste para sempre, mas através de uma conexão com o tempo. (Thomas Taylor) Embora a distinção terminológica nem sempre seja respeitada pelos filósofos, o conceito de «perpétua duração no tempo» (aidios) é independente e difere de «eterno» (aionios), i. e., que não pertence à ordem…
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Thomas Taylor: THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS I-3
It will, however, be discussed sufficiently, if it is rendered perspicuous according to its subject matter. For accuracy must not be similarly investigated in all discussions, as neither in all the works of art. Things beautiful, however, and just, with which the political science is conversant, possess so great a difference, and are involved in…
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Taylor: Introdução a Plotino (7)
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If such then is the decision of Longinus concerning the abilities and writings of this extraordinary man; of Longinus, who is celebrated by one of our first poets, as ” inspired by all the Nine ; ” and whose literary reputation is universal; what judgement must we form of the philosophic taste of the present…
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Taylor: Tratado 10,10 (V, 1, 10) — Toda alma individual guarda nela mesma uma imagem das três hipóstases
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X. It has been shown, however, as far as it is possible to demonstrate about things of this kind, that it is requisite to think that beyond being there is the one, such as reason wishes to unfold ; that next to this, being and intellect subsist; and that, in the third place, follows the…
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Thomas Taylor: Tratado 5,5 (V,9,5) — Que pensa o Intelecto?
V. It is necessary, however, to consider intellect truly so called neither as intellect in capacity, nor as proceeding from the privation to the possession of intellect. For if we do not, we must again investigate another intellect prior to this. But we must assume intellect in energy, and and which is always intellect. If…
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Thomas Taylor: Tratado 2,5 (IV,7,5) — O corpo não pode ser o princípio nem da existência nem do movimento
V. “With respect to motions also, why are different motions produced by the soul, and ‘not one only, there being but one [natural] motion of every body? But if they assign deliberate choice as the cause of some motions, and reasons [or productive principles] as the causes of others, these indeed are rightly assigned. Deliberate…
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Taylor: Tratado 1,9 (I, 6, 9) — A alma se torna luz
[IX] What is it then this inward eye beholds? Indeed, suddenly raised to intellectual vision, it cannot perceive an object exceeding bright. The soul must therefore be first accustomed to contemplate fair studies, and then beautiful works; not such as arise from the operations of art, but such as are the offspring of worthy men:…
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Thomas Taylor: Intellectual Prudence. A note to Enneads (I,2)
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The following account of the virtues is extracted from the Notes to my Translation of the ” Phaedo ” of Plato: The first of the virtues are the physical, which are common to brutes, being mingled with the temperaments, and for the most part contrary to each other; or rather pertaining to the animal. Or…