XIV. With respect to the souls of other animals, such among these as have fallen from a better, condition, and have proceeded as far as to brutal bodies, these likewise are necessarily immortal. But if there is another species of soul, it is necessary that this also should not be derived from any other source than a vital nature, since this likewise is the cause of life to animals, and besides this, of the life which is in plants. For all these proceeding from the same principle, have an appropriate life of their own. And these souls also are incorporeal, impartible, and essences. If, however, it is requisite that the soul of man being tripartite should be dissolved with the composite, we must say that pure souls which are liberated from the body, dismiss that which adhered to them in generation; but that this is accomplished by others in long periods of time. That also which is dismissed, is the worst part, nor will this be destroyed, as long as that subsists from whence it originates. For nothing which is comprehended in being perishes.
Thomas Taylor: Tratado 2,14 (IV,7,14) — As almas dos viventes individuais
- A alma é um corpo?
- Alma (Plotino)
- Bouillet: Tratado 2 (IV, 7) – DE L’IMMORTALITÉ DE L’ÂME
- Brisson & Pradeau: Somos nossa alma
- Enéada IV, 7 – Sobre a imortalidade da alma
- Enéada IV, 7, 1 — Somos inteiramente ou parcialmente imortais?
- Enéada IV, 7, 10 — A alma é de natureza divina
- Enéada IV, 7, 11 — A alma é imortal, indestrutível, indivisível e imutável.
- Enéada IV, 7, 12 — A alma é imortal, indestrutível, indivisível e imutável. (2)
- Enéada IV, 7, 13 — Como a alma vem ao corpo?