Ennèades
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- Text net · 1 passatges il·legibles, exclosos de les respostes
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Cita aquesta obra
- APAPlotí. (n.d.). Ennèades. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plotinus/select-works-of-plotinus
- MLAPlotí. "Ennèades." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plotinus/select-works-of-plotinus.
- ChicagoPlotí. Ennèades. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plotinus/select-works-of-plotinus.
De què tracta
La seleccio de Ploti traduida per Thomas Taylor: una de les dues edicions del corpus, i la mes antiga.
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.
I. Since evils are here, and revolve from necessity about this [terrestrial] place, but the soul wishes to fly from evils, it is requisite to fly from hence. What therefore is the fljg!^? To become similar, says Plato, to God. But thi^mlrnbe effected, if we become just and holy, in conjunction with [intellectual] prudence, and in short if we are [truly] virtuous. If therefore we are assimilated through virtue, is it to one who possesses virtue ? But to whom are we assimilated ? To divinity. Are we then assimilated to that nature which appears to possess the virtues in a more eminent degree, and also to the sovl of the world, and to the intellect which is the leader in it, in which there is an admirable wisdom? For it is reasonable to suppose that while we are here, we are assimilated to this intellect. Or is it not in the first place dubious, whether all the virtues are present with this intellect, such as temperance and fortitude, since there is nothing which can be dreadful to it ? For nothing externally happens to it, nor does any ^ See the additional notes at the end of this Volume, for a copious account of the political^ cathartic and theoretic virtues, the subject of the present treatise of Plotinus. SELECT WORKS OF PLOTINL'S. SELECT WORKS OF PLOTINL'S. thing pleasing approach to it, which when not present it may become desirous of poasessing, or apprehending. But if it also has an appetite directed to the intetligibles, after which our aoula aspire, it is evident that ornament and the virtues are from thence derived to us. Has therefore this intellect these virtues? Or may we not say, it is not reasonable to suppose, that it possesses what are called the p<^ttical virtues, viz.…