Categoria: Enéada V, 3 (49)

Tractate 49 Fifth Ennead. Third tractate. The knowing hypostases and the transcendent. 1. Are we to think that a being knowing itself must contain diversity, that self-knowledge can be affirmed only when some one phase of the self perceives other phases, and that therefore an absolutely simplex entity would be equally incapable of introversion and…

The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them. IS KNOWLEDGE DEPENDENT ON THE COMPOSITENESS OF THE KNOWER? 1. Must thought, and self-consciousness imply being composed of different parts, and on their mutual contemplation? Must that which is absolutely simple be unable to turn towards itself, to know itself? ls it, on the contrary, possible that for…