Categoria: Neoplatonismo

It might be argued that the Intellectual-Principle is the Contemplator and therefore that the Living-Being contemplated is not the Intellectual-Principle but must be described as the Intellectual Object so that the Intellectual-Principle must possess the Ideal realm as something outside of itself. Enneads III,9,1 No: even though the Intellectual-Principle and the Intellectual Object are distinct,…

But the Archetypes of all such qualities, the foundation in which they exist primarily, these are Activities of the Intellectual Beings. Enneads II,6,3 When we seize anything in the direct intellectual act there is room for nothing else than to know and to contemplate the object; and in the knowing there is not included any…

Intellectual order

Intellectual Object

Intellectual 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,…