柏拉图派翘楚普罗提诺哲学全集，凡54卷…… (II)
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内容简介
肯尼思·格思里所译普罗提诺四卷本之第二卷：语料库中的另一种版本。
背景与流传
普罗提诺公元三世纪在罗马讲学，写作并非为了出版；他的学生波菲利在他去世后收集其文稿，编为六组、每组九篇——“九章集”（Enneads）之名即由此而来；这一编次并非普罗提诺自己的。他的哲学自柏拉图出发而更进一步：由超乎存在与思维之上的“太一”流溢出“心智”，由心智流溢出“灵魂”，由灵魂流溢出可感世界；而人的灵魂能够循此路回溯向上——波菲利说，他的老师曾四次做到。整个新柏拉图主义由此而出，奥古斯丁、狄奥尼修斯、阿拉伯诸哲、菲奇诺与文艺复兴皆经由它。读者请注意：本目录收有同一批材料的两种英译本——《Select Works of Plotinus》（托马斯·泰勒译）与四卷本《Plotinos Complete Works》（肯尼思·格思里译）——译文与编次都不同；而《An Essay on the Beautiful》即《九章集》I.6，两个本子里都有。这并非错误：它们是同一作者的不同版本。引用时必须注明所用何本，最好并注明九章集的卷次与篇次。
这是编辑性背景，不是可引用的来源：与作品本身的段落不同，这些说明无法在语料库中核对。
1. Is it because the body of the universe is so great that the Soul is everywhere present in the universe, though being naturally divisible in (human) bodies? Or it is by herself, that she is everywhere present? In the latter case, she has not been drawn away everywhere by the body, but the body found her everywhere in existence before it; thus, in whatever place it may be, it found the Soul present before it itself was part of the universe, and the total body of the universe was located in the Soul that existed already. HOW COULD THE SOUL HAVE NO MAGNITUDE, IF SHE ALREADY FILLED ALL SPACE? But if the Soul had such an extension before the body approached her, if she already filled all space, how can she have no magnitude? Besides, how could she have been present in the universe when the latter did not yet exist? Last, being considered indivisible and non-extended, is she everywhere present without having any magnitude? If the answer be that she extended herself throughout the body of the universe without herself being corporeal, the question is not yet resolved by thus accidentally attributing magnitude to the Soul; for it would then be reasonable to ask how she grew great by accident. The Soul could not extend herself in the entire body in the same manner as quality, as for instance, sweetness or color; for these are passive modifications of the bodies, so that one must not be astonished to see a modification spread all over the modified body, being nothing by itself, inhering in the body, and existing only within it; that is why the soul necessarily has the same magnitude as the body.…