Categoria: Neoplatonismo

This activity is screened not from the man entire but merely from one part of him: we have here a parallel to what happens in the activity of the physical or vegetative life in us which is not made known by the sensitive faculty to the rest of the man: if our physical life really…

intellective act Let us explain the conditions under which we become conscious of this Intellective-Act. Enneads I,4,10 In sum we may safely gather that while the Intellective-Act may be attended by the Imaging Principle, it is not to be confounded with it. Enneads I,4,10 The Good is that on which all else depends, towards which…

But why should it not be simply a dyad? Because neither of the constituents could ever be a pure unity, but at the very least a duality and so progressively [in an endless dualization]. Besides, in that first duality of the hypothesis there would be also movement and rest, Intellect and the life included in…