MacKenna

The First

Porfírio reuniu na Enéada V os tratados que concernem o intelecto ou a inteligência (

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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.

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VOLUMES ORIGINAIS

Plotinus...translated from the Greek by Stephen Mackenna (Volume 1)

Plotinus...translated from the Greek by Stephen Mackenna (Volume 2)

Plotinus...translated from the Greek by Stephen Mackenna (Volume 3)

Um dos primeiros a traduzir as Enéadas para o inglês. Sua tradução ganhou notoriedade e ainda guarda seus méritos apesar da pesquisa mais filológica sobre a obra de

Em sua famosa polêmica antignóstica, Plotino revigorou a convicção acerca da positividade do mundo físico. Paradoxalmente, ele afirma que a matéria é o mal. O que significa isto?

SENSATION and SENSE-PERCEPTION are used, almost indifferently, for any action or passive-state by which man experiences the material world or any of its manifestations or representations. (Stephen MacKenna)

O que pode ser dito da alma se aplica ao mesmo tempo, mutatis mutandis, à Alma do Mundo e às almas particulares. A alma é aparentada à natureza mais divina e eterna. Ela não tem corpo (Eneada-III, 6, 6), logo não tem figura exterior (

Our One-First is not a body: a body is not simplex and, as a thing of process cannot be a First, the Source cannot be a thing of generation: only a principle outside of body, and utterly untouched by multiplicity, could be The First. V Fourth 1