Formulation orientale et formulation occidentale : Védânta non-dualiste et Néoplatonisme (Shankara et Plotin)
Si Plotin ne s’est pas arrêté à une conception abstraite de la Transcendance de l’Absolu, ainsi que les philosophes et théologiens occidentaux qui ont subi l’influence d’Aristote, il n’en a pas moins employé un langage qui suggère une transcendance abstraite : l’Un apparemment posé comme extérieur à l’Etre et à l’Intelligence semble laisser le monde et son producteur en dehors de (…)
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Plotino (séc. III)
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Vallin (PM:97-102) – Absoluto em Plotino e em Shankara (2)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: soul (Enneads I)
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de Castro1. Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat? Clearly, either in the SOUL alone, or in the SOUL as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending. Enneads I,1,1
2. This first enquiry obliges us to consider at the outset the nature of the SOUL that is whether a distinction (…) -
Damiani (Enneads:731-737) – The System of Nature
14 de setembro de 2023, por Cardoso de CastroThe entire universe, including all levels and all possible worlds, is the body of God manifested within Soul. For Plotinus, this is the system of Nature. Our universe as thus conceived is not inert matter, nor is it an illusion:
... this All is one universally comprehensive living being, encircling all the living beings within it, and having a soul, one soul, which extends to all its members in the degree of participant membership held by each... (IV.4.32)
For Plotinus, the Cosmos is not (…) -
Damiani (Enneads:726-730) – Soul
14 de setembro de 2023, por Cardoso de CastroOur venerable friend and guide reveals that he has penetrated into the mysteries of soul, its greatness and wonder, its graded powers and divinity. This is not a knowledge by acquaintance—the intellect’s capacity for remembering created concepts—but a knowledge that goes beyond the imagination’s formulation of thoughts, beyond even the categories of thought. For the capacity of the lower mind to formulate thoughts and concepts is objective to the experience of the sage. We are now speaking (…)
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Damiani (Enneads:720-725) – Intellectual-Principle
13 de setembro de 2023, por Cardoso de CastroThe power of the One is so great that the Divine Mind [Intellectual-Principle], though an “image One,” is itself authentic reality.... as the “outward” expression of the One, it paradoxically stands as a distinct hypostasis midst the One without a second. [We will subsequently treat the terms Intellectual-Principle, Divine Mind, and Nous as interchangeable.]
Seeking nothing, possessing nothing, lacking nothing, the One is perfect and, in our metaphor, has overflowed, and its exuberance has (…) -
Damiani (Enneads:712-720) – The One
13 de setembro de 2023, por Cardoso de CastroPlotinus presents a philosophy of Unity: unity as unfathomable and transcendent, and unity as omnipresent and immanent.
First in the order of importance are statements about the existence of God, the One-Only; for following upon this certitude that is the very core of all that he will say, Plotinus transmits for our benefit a wisdom-knowledge or prima philosophia conascent with the foundations of our world and our being.
“In what sense, then,” Plotinus asks in VI.9.6, “do we assert this (…) -
Deck (Plotinus:C6) – Natureza
10 de setembro de 2023, por Cardoso de Castrotradução
Segundo John N. Deck, Plotino usa a palavra physis («natureza») em vários sentidos, que são necessariamente, mas facilmente, distinguidos. Em um sentido geral, a natureza pode significar a «constituição» de uma coisa ou um princípio. Este é o sentido do termo no qual Plotino pode se referir à natureza do corpo (Enéada III.6.6), a natureza da forma (Enéada III, 6, 4), ou até a natureza do Bem (Enéada IV, 8, 13). Ainda, a natureza pode significar hipóstase, como quando Plotino chama (…) -
MacKenna (Enneads) – Existência
10 de setembro de 2023, por Cardoso de CastroAll ’Nature’, even in the lowest, is in ceaseless Contemplation and Aspiration: while every being, until the ultimate possible is reached, tends to engender an image of itself, it tends also to rejoin the next highest, of which it is itself a shadow or lower manifestation: even Matter, all but outcast from the sphere of Being and unable to engender, has the power of receiving form and is, thereby, tending feebly towards Authentic-Existence, towards Soul and Mind, and so is linked, distantly, (…)
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Guillermo Fraile – Ascensão ao Um em Plotino
19 de julho de 2023, por Cardoso de Castro1.° Supresión de la materia.—En el compuesto humano la última diferencia es la materia, que constituye el cuerpo. Por esto lo primero de todo es libertar el alma del cuerpo y de las sensaciones (aisthesis). «Hay que dejar el alma sola y separada de todas las cosas».
Es necesaria la liberación de los sentidos y de todas las sensaciones, especialmente las de la vista y del oído. El alma debe «cesar de inclinarse demasiado hacia las cosas inferiores e imaginarlas» (III 6,5). Y además (…) -
Plotino (Enéadas) – A alma é um corpo?
19 de julho de 2023, por Cardoso de CastroWhat answer can be made by those declaring soul to be corporeal? Is every part of the soul, in any one body, soul entire, soul perfectly true to its essential being? and may the same be said of every part of the part? If so, the magnitude makes no contribution to the soul’s essential nature, as it must if soul [as corporeal] were a definite magnitude: it is, as body cannot be, an "all-everywhere," a complete identity present at each and every point, the part all that the whole is. Enneads: (…)