The system of Plotinus is a system of necessary EMANATION, PROCESSION, or IRRADIATION accompanied by necessary ASPIRATION or REVERSION-TO-SOURCE: all the forms and phases of Existence flow from the Divinity and all strive to return THITHER and to remain THERE.
This Divinity is a graded Triad.
Its three Hypostases – or in modern religious terminology, ‘Persons’ – are, in the briefest description:
1 The ONE, or First Existent.
2 The DIVINE MIND, or First Thinker and Thought.
3 The ALL-SOUL, or First and Only Principle of Life.
‘Of all things the governance and the existence are in these Three.’
(Stephen MacKenna)
Triad (MacKenna)
- 10 FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK THREE. Of the Hypostases that Mediate Knowledge, and of the Superior Principle.
- 11 SIXTH ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR. The One and Identical Being Is Everywhere Present As a Whole.
- 1a. O reconhecimento perceptivo requer opinião (doxa) e razão empiricamente baseada (logos)?
- 1b. Reconhecimento e juízo perceptivo – um processo ativo
- 1c. Recepção de forma sem matéria
- 1d. Desmaterialização do processo sensório
- 1f. Objeções à visão envolvendo corpos indo para o e do olho
- 1g. A visão de Filopono, a atividade (energeia) da cor
- 2 FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK NINE. Of Suicide.
- 2 OF ASSENT.