Categoria: Enéada III

Tractate 30 Third Ennead. Eighth tractate. Nature contemplation and the one. 1. Supposing we played a little before entering upon our serious concern and maintained that all things are striving after Contemplation, looking to Vision as their one end – and this, not merely beings endowed with reason but even the unreasoning animals, the Principle…

Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND THE EXISTING ANIMAL. 1. Plato says, “The intelligence sees the ideas comprised within the existing animal.” He adds, “The demiurge conceived that this produced animal was to comprise beings similar and equally numerous to those that the intelligence sees in the existing…

Tractate 13 Third Ennead. Ninth tractate. Detached considerations. 1. “The Intellectual-Principle” [= the Divine Mind] – we read [in the Timaeus] – “looks upon the Ideas indwelling in that Being which is the Essentially Living [= according to Plotinus, the Intellectual Realm], “and then” – the text proceeds – “the Creator judged that all the…