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Enéada I — Tratado I — 1
MacKenna: THE ANIMATE AND THE MAN.
1. Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
And what applies to the affections applies also to whatsoever acts, physical or mental, spring from them.
Excertos de Thonnard, Compêndio de História da Filosofia
Excertos de "La Filosofia de Plotino" de Émile Bréhier. Trad. em espanhol de PIOSSEK PREBISCH
Respeitado como um dos grandes estudiosos da tradição grega no século XIX, encaminhou-se à filosofia depois de sua formação e dedicação à teologia.
Entradas na Wikipedia:
PLOTINOS ADDRESSES HIMSELF TO THOSE OF HIS FRIENDS WHO WERE FORMERLY GNOSTIC, NOT TO THE LATTER WHO ARE HOPELESS.
SECOND ENNEAD, BOOK NINE.
Against the Gnostics; or, That the Creator and the World are Not Evil.
THE SUPREME PRINCIPLES MUST BE SIMPLE AND NOT COMPOUND.
FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK FIVE.
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.
FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Concerning Intelligible Beauty.
ART MAKES A STATUE OUT OF ROUGH MARBLE.