Categoria: Enéada V, 5 (32)

That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good. (The subject of the quarrel between Amelius and Porphyry.) KNOWLEDGE OF THE INTELLIGIBLE ENTITIES IMPLIES THEIR PRESENCE. 1. Surely, nobody could believe that the veritable and real Intelligence could be deceived, and admit the existence of things that do not exist? Its very…

Tractate 32 Fifth Ennead. Fifth tractate. That the intellectual beings are not outside the intellectual-principle: and on the nature of the good. 1. The Intellectual-Principle, the veritably and essentially intellective, can this be conceived as ever falling into error, ever failing to think reality? Assuredly no: it would no longer be intelligent and therefore no…