Uma definição de natureza em Plotino, segundo os tratados 27-29 (En. IV. 3-5) e 30 (III. 8)
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A definition of nature (phúsis) in Plotinus, according to treatises 27-28 (Enn. IV, 3-5) and 30 (III, 8)
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Plotinus’ writings are full of concealed Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines, as Porphyry informs us (Life of Plotinus, 14). This is particularly obvious as far as the doctrine of nature (phúsis) 4 is concerned. Plotinus tried to carry out a synthesis between, on the one hand, Platonism, which led him to place the One, Being, and the Soul, beyond the universe and separate from it ; and, on the other hand, Stoic vitalism, which endows the universe with a vi- tal energy that fashions it in an indefin ...
Plotinus’ writings are full of concealed Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines, as Porphyry informs us (Life of Plotinus, 14). This is particularly obvious as far as the doctrine of nature (phúsis) 4 is concerned. Plotinus tried to carry out a synthesis between, on the one hand, Platonism, which led him to place the One, Being, and the Soul, beyond the universe and separate from it ; and, on the other hand, Stoic vitalism, which endows the universe with a vi- tal energy that fashions it in an indefinite series of cycles. ...
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Perspectiva filosófica. Recife, PE. Vol. 49, n. 1 (2022), p. 1-18
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