Brisson & Pradeau: Alma do Mundo
BRISSON, Luc & PRADEAU, Jean-François. Plotin Traités 27-29. Paris: GF Flammarion, 2005, p. 29.
polla
gr. = todo, multiplicidade, múltiplo total. As ideias apreendidas como unidades que são, mas as múltiplas coisas sensíveis que nelas participam apreendidas como em processo de devir. hoi polloi = a multidão, o grande número.
Brisson & Pradeau: Uno e Múltiplo
Segundo Brisson & Pradeau, o duplo caráter de indivisibilidade e de divisibilidade da alma do mundo é que faz
Guthrie: Tractate 38,14 (VI, 7, 14) - INTELLIGENCE CONTAINS THE INFINITE AS SIMULTANEOUSNESS OF ONE AND MANY
INTELLIGENCE CONTAINS THE INFINITE AS SIMULTANEOUSNESS OF ONE AND MANY AND AS FRIENDSHIP.
Guthrie: Tractate 38,13 (VI, 7, 13) - SIMPLICITY OF THE INTELLIGIBLE DOES NOT DENY COMPOSITENESS
SIMPLICITY OF THE INTELLIGIBLE DOES NOT DENY COMPOSITENESS, BUT INFERS HEIGHT OF SOURCE.
Guthrie: Tractate 38,3 (VI, 7, 3) - INTELLIGENCE DID NOT DELIBERATE BEFORE MAKING SENSE-MAN
INTELLIGENCE DID NOT DELIBERATE BEFORE MAKING SENSE-MAN.
Guthrie: Tractate 38 (VI, 7) - HOW IDEAS MULTIPLIED, AND THE GOOD
A. HOW IDEAS MULTIPLY.
1. The eyes were implanted in man by divine foresight.
Senses not given to man because of experience of misfortunes.
Nor because of god's foresight of these misfortunes.
Foresight of creation is not the result of reasoning.
Both reasoning and foresight are only figurative expressions.
In god all things were simultaneous, though when realized they developed.
2. In the intelligible, everything possesses its reason as well as its form.
Intelligence contains the cause of all its forms.
Guthrie: Tractate 8,5 (IV, 9, 5) - HOW AN ESSENCE CAN BE ONE IN A MULTITUDE OF SOULS IS ILLUSTRATED BY SEED
5. How can an essence be single in a multitude of souls? Either this one essence is entire in all souls, or this one and entire essence begets all souls while remaining (undiminished) in itself. In either case, the essence is single.
Guthrie: Tractate 8,4 (IV, 9, 4) - THE UNITY OF THE SOULS IS A CONDITION OF THEIR MULTIPLICITY
THE UNITY OF THE SOULS IS A CONDITION OF THEIR MULTIPLICITY.
Guthrie: Tractate 8,3 (IV, 9, 3) - UNITY OF ALL BEINGS IMPLIED BY SYMPATHY, LOVE, AND MAGIC ENCHANTMENT
UNITY OF ALL BEINGS IMPLIED BY SYMPATHY, LOVE, AND MAGIC ENCHANTMENT.
Guthrie: Tractate 8,2 (IV, 9, 2) - THE UNITY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SEVERAL SOULS NEED NOT IMPLY THEIR BEING IDENTICAL
THE UNITY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SEVERAL SOULS NEED NOT IMPLY THEIR BEING IDENTICAL.