Ennèades (III)
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Cita aquesta obra
- APAPlotí. (n.d.). Ennèades (III). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plotinus/plotinos-complete-works-v-3
- MLAPlotí. "Ennèades (III)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plotinus/plotinos-complete-works-v-3.
- ChicagoPlotí. Ennèades (III). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plotinus/plotinos-complete-works-v-3.
De què tracta
El tercer dels quatre volums de Ploti en la traduccio de Kenneth Guthrie: l'altra edicio del corpus.
Context i història
Ploti va ensenyar a Roma al segle III i no escrivia per publicar; Porfiri, deixeble seu, va reunir els seus escrits despres de la seva mort i els va ordenar en sis grups de nou tractats —d'aqui «Ennèades», «novenes»—, un ordre que no es de Ploti. La seva filosofia parteix de Plato i el porta mes lluny: de l'U, que es mes enlla de l'esser i del pensament, en surt per emanacio l'Intel·lecte, i d'aquest l'Anima, i d'aquesta el mon sensible; l'anima humana pot desfer el cami cap amunt, i Porfiri diu que el seu mestre ho va aconseguir quatre vegades. D'aqui surt tot el neoplatonisme, i per ell passen Agusti, Dionisi, els arabs, Ficino i el Renaixement. AVIS AL LECTOR: al catàleg hi ha DUES edicions angleses del mateix material, «Select Works of Plotinus» (traduccio de Thomas Taylor) i els quatre volums de «Plotinos Complete Works» (traduccio de Kenneth Guthrie), amb traduccions i ordenacions diferents; i «An Essay on the Beautiful» es l'Ennèada I.6, que es dins de totes dues. No es cap error: son edicions distintes del mateix autor. La citacio ha de dir sempre quina edicio fa servir, i millor si dona tambe el numero d'Ennèada i de tractat.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
1. Does manifoldness consist in distance from unity? Is infinity this distance carried to the extreme, because it is an innumerable manifoldness? Is then infinity an evil, and are we ourselves evil when we are manifold? (That is probable); or every being becomes manifold when, not being able to remain turned towards itself, it blossoms out; it extends while dividing; and thus losing all unity in its expansion, it becomes manifoldness, because there is nothing that holds its parts mutually united. If, nevertheless, there still remain something that holds its parts mutually united, then, though blossoming out, (the essence) remains, and becomes manifoldness. HOW MANIFOLDNESS IS AN EVIL. But what is there to be feared in magnitude? If (the essence) that has increased could feel (it would feel that which in itself has become evil; for) it would feel that it had issued from itself, and had even gone to a great distance (from itself). No (essence), indeed, seeks that which is other than itself; every (essence) seeks itself. The movement by which (an essence) issues from itself is caused either by "audacity," or necessity. Every (being) exists in the highest degree not when it becomes manifold or great, but when it belongs to itself; now this occurs when it concentrates upon itself. That which desires to become great in some other manner is ignorant of that in which true greatness consists; instead of proceeding towards its legitimate goal, it turns towards the outside. Now, on the contrary, to turn towards oneself, is to remain in oneself. The demonstration of this may be seen in that which participates in greatness; if (the being) develop itself so that each of its parts exist apart, each part will indeed exist, but (the being) will no longer be what it originally was.…