Intellectual order
But, to begin with, these imprints are not magnitudes [are not of corporeal nature at all]; there is no resemblance to seal impressions, no stamping of a resistant matter, for there is neither the down-thrust [as of the seal] nor [the acceptance] as in the wax: the process is entirely of the intellect, though exercised upon things of sense; and what kind of resistance [or other physical action] can be affirmed in matters of the intellectual order, or what need can there (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: intellectual order
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MacKenna-Plotinus: intellectual object
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIntellectual Object
Nothing in the statement cited is inconsistent with the conception that these two constitute one substance - though, in a unity, admitting that distinction, of the intellectual act [as against passivity], without which there can be no question of an Intellectual-Principle and an Intellectual Object: what is meant is not that the contemplatory Being possesses its vision as in some other principle, but that it contains the Intellectual Realm within itself. Enneads III,9,1 (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Intellectual-Activity
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroBut it has been observed that the Couplement, too - especially before our emancipation - is a member of this total We, and in fact what the body experiences we say We experience. This then covers two distinct notions; sometimes it includes the brute-part, sometimes it transcends the brute. The body is brute touched to life; the true man is the other, going pure of the body, natively endowed with the virtues which belong to the Intellectual-Activity, virtues whose seat is the Separate Soul, (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Intellectual-Being
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIntellectual Being
Therefore, first let each become godlike and each beautiful who cares to see God and Beauty. So, mounting, the Soul will come first to the Intellectual-Principle and survey all the beautiful Ideas in the Supreme and will avow that this is Beauty, that the Ideas are Beauty. For by their efficacy comes all Beauty else, but the offspring and essence of the Intellectual-Being. What is beyond the Intellectual-Principle we affirm to be the nature of Good radiating Beauty (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Tipo-Intelectual
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIntellectual Kind
Must we then suppose a common faculty of apprehension [one covering both sense perceptions and ideas] and assign memory in both orders to this? The solution might serve if there were one and the same percipient for objects of sense and objects of the Intellectual-Kind; but if these stand in definite duality, then, for all we can say or do, we are left with two separate principles of memory; and, supposing each of the two orders of soul to possess both principles, then we (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Intellectual-Kosmos
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIntellectual Kosmos
Therefore, first let each become godlike and each beautiful who cares to see God and Beauty. So, mounting, the Soul will come first to the Intellectual-Principle and survey all the beautiful Ideas in the Supreme and will avow that this is Beauty, that the Ideas are Beauty. For by their efficacy comes all Beauty else, but the offspring and essence of the Intellectual-Being. What is beyond the Intellectual-Principle we affirm to be the nature of Good radiating Beauty (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Intellectual-Principal
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWhether, in this self-vision, the soul is a duality and views itself as from the outside - while seeing the Intellectual-Principal as a unity, and itself with the Intellectual-Principle as a unity - this question is investigated elsewhere. Enneads IV,6,2
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MacKenna-Plotinus: intellectual-principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIntellectual-Principle
Fifth tractate - That the intellectual beings are not outside the intellectual-principle: and on the nature of the good. Enneads V,5,
Ninth tractate - The intellectual-principle, the ideas, and the authentic existence. Enneads V,9, -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Intellectual-Principles
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWhen the Intellect is in upward orientation that [lower part of it] which contains [or, corresponds to] the life of the Soul, is, so to speak, flung down again and becomes like the reflection resting on the smooth and shining surface of a mirror; in this illustration, when the mirror is in place the image appears but, though the mirror be absent or out of gear, all that would have acted and produced an image still exists; so in the case of the Soul; when there is peace in that within us (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Intellectuals
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIntellectual
Now comes the question what sort of thing does the Intellectual-Principle see in seeing the Intellectual Realm and what in seeing itself? We are not to look for an Intellectual realm reminding us of the colour or shape to be seen on material objects: the intellectual antedates all such things; and even in our sphere the production is very different from the Reason-Principle in the seeds from which it is produced. The seed principles are invisible and the beings of the (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: intelligence
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAll until The Good is reached is beautiful; The Good is beyond-beautiful, beyond the Highest, holding kingly state in the Intellectual-Kosmos, that sphere constituted by a Principle wholly unlike what is known as Intelligence in us. Our intelligence is nourished on the propositions of logic, is skilled in following discussions, works by reasonings, examines links of demonstration, and comes to know the world of Being also by the steps of logical process, having no prior grasp of Reality but (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Inteligência
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAll until The Good is reached is beautiful; The Good is beyond-beautiful, beyond the Highest, holding kingly state in the Intellectual-Kosmos, that sphere constituted by a Principle wholly unlike what is known as Intelligence in us. Our intelligence is nourished on the propositions of logic, is skilled in following discussions, works by reasonings, examines links of demonstration, and comes to know the world of Being also by the steps of logical process, having no prior grasp of Reality but (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: intelligences
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThey hope to get the credit of minute and exact identification by setting up a plurality of intellectual Essences; but in reality this multiplication lowers the Intellectual Nature to the level of the Sense-Kind: their true course is to seek to reduce number to the least possible in the Supreme, simply referring all things to the Second Hypostasis - which is all that exists as it is Primal Intellect and Reality and is the only thing that is good except only for the first Nature - and to (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: intelligent
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe ensouled fall into two classes. The one kind has a motion of its own, but haphazard like that of horses between the shafts but before their driver sets the course; they are set right by the whip. In the Living-Being possessed of Reason, the nature-principle includes the driver; where the driver is intelligent, it takes in the main a straight path to a set end. But both classes are members of the All and co-operate towards the general purpose. Enneads II,3,13
If they meant, by temperate (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: intelligible
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroWhat is this? The Intellectual-Principle taken separately, perhaps? No: an Intellect is always inseparable from an intelligible object; eliminate the intelligible, and the Intellectual-Principle disappears with it. If, then, what we are seeking cannot be the Intellectual-Principle but must be something that rejects the duality there present, then the Prior demanded by that duality must be something on the further side of the Intellectual-Principle. Enneads III,8,9
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Inteligível
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIf, indeed, that aspiration towards the Intelligible which is in our nature exists also in this Ruling-Power, then need not look elsewhere for the source of order and of the virtues in ourselves. Enneads I,2,1
Thus the All stands as one all-complete Life, whose members, to the measure in which each contains within itself the Highest, effect all that is high and noble: and the entire scheme must be subordinate to its Dirigeant as an army to its general, "following upon Zeus" - it has been (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Intelligible-Existents
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe escape, we read, is not a matter of place, but of acquiring virtue, of disengaging the self from the body; this is the escape from Matter. Plato explains somewhere how a man frees himself and how he remains bound; and the phrase "to live among the gods" means to live among the Intelligible-Existents, for these are the Immortals. Enneads I,8,7
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Intelligibles
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe faculty of perception in the Soul cannot act by the immediate grasping of sensible objects, but only by the discerning of impressions printed upon the Animate by sensation: these impressions are already Intelligibles while the outer sensation is a mere phantom of the other [of that in the Soul] which is nearer to Authentic-Existence as being an impassive reading of Ideal-Forms. Enneads I,1,7
The first degree is the conversion from the lower life; the second - held by those that have (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Uno Princípio
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe born lover, to whose degree the musician also may attain - and then either come to a stand or pass beyond - has a certain memory of beauty but, severed from it now, he no longer comprehends it: spellbound by visible loveliness he clings amazed about that. His lesson must be to fall down no longer in bewildered delight before some, one embodied form; he must be led, under a system of mental discipline, to beauty everywhere and made to discern the One Principle underlying all, a Principle (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Ideal Principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe Ideal Principle possessing the Intellection [= Idea, Noesis] of Magnitude - assuming that this Intellection is of such power as not merely to subsist within itself but to be urged outward as it were by the intensity of its life - will necessarily realize itself in a Kind [= Matter] not having its being in the Intellective Principle, not previously possessing the Idea of Magnitude or any trace of that Idea or any other. Enneads III,6,18
The [Universal] Soul - containing the Ideal (…)