Platão e platonismo

Tag: Thomas Taylor (1758-1835)

  • Thomas Taylor: Tratado 2,3 (IV,7,3) — Refutação das definições epicuriana e estoica da alma

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    III. If some one, however, should say that an assemblage of atoms or impartibles produce soul by their union, such a one will be confuted by similitude of passion, and by apposition; since one thing will not thus be generated through the whole, nor will that which is co-passive be produced from bodies which are…

  • Proclo: Teologia de Platão I-XXIII

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    After this, wisdom is allotted the second order, being the intelligence of the Gods, or rather the hyparxis of their intelligence. For intelligence indeed, is intellectual knowledge; but the wisdom of the Gods is ineffable knowledge, which is united to the object of knowledge and the intelligible union of the Gods. But it appears to…

  • Thomas Taylor: THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

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    Excerto da Introdução de Thomas Taylor, THE RHETORIC, POETIC, AND NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE With respect to the third of these treatises, the Nicomachean Ethics, it is necessary to observe, that the subject of ethics, or moral philosophy, is moral entity, (viz. things which have a relation to moral actions) and moral actions themselves, and…

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    A política, do grego politike, designa a atividade que organiza e gere uma cidade (polis), geralmente uma coletividade cujos membros forma um corpo, por entente tácita ou explícita, em um destino comum. [Notions philosophiques] Esta palavra, politikos, como Sydenham corretamente observa em suas notas dos Rivais, é de uma ampla e extensa história, como usada…

  • Thomas Taylor: THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS I-8

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    Felicity [eudaimonia], therefore, must be considered by us, not only from the conclusion, and the particulars from which its definition consists, but also from the assertions of others concerning it. For every thing which is inherent in a thing accords with the truth [aletheia]; but what is true is rapidly dissonant with what is false…

  • Taylor: Ciência

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    SCIENCE. This word is sometimes defined by Plato to be that which assigns the causes of things; sometimes to be that the subjects of which have a perfectly stable essence; and together with this, he conjoins the assignation of cause from reasoning. Sometimes again he defines it to be that the principles of which are…

  • Taylor: Introdução a Plotino (1)

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    Plotinus was by birth an Egyptian, and was a native of Lycopolis, as we are informed by Eunapius ; for Porphyry is wholly silent as to this particular. Indeed, this is not wonderful, if we consider what Porphyry asserts of him in the beginning of his life, viz. that he was ashamed that his soul…

  • Taylor: Tratado 10,2 (V, 1, 2) — A natureza da alma do mundo e sua atividade

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    II. Every soul, therefore, ought to consider in the first place, that soul produced all animals, and inspired them with life; viz. those animals which the earth and sea nourish, those which live in the air, and the divine stars contained in the heavens. Soul also made the sun; soul made and adorned this mighty…

  • Thomas Taylor: Tratado 4,1 (IV,2,1) — A realidade da alma

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    I. In investigating the essence of soul, if we show that it is neither body, nor the harmony in incorporeal natures; and likewise if we omit what is said of its being the entelecheia,1 or perfection of the body, as not true, as the words [taken literally] imply, and as not manifesting what the soul…

  • Thomas Taylor: Tratado 45,10 (III,7,10) — Tempo como acompanhamento do movimento

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    Eneada-III, 7, 10 X. Again, therefore, it is requisite that we should betake ourselves to that condition of being which we have said is in eternity; a condition which is immutable, and at once total, a life now infinite and perfectly inflexible, and abiding in one, and directed to the one. But time was not…