Part 29

[301] See vi. 3.6.

[302] See vi. 3.3.

[303] See iii. 2.16.

[304] That is, the higher part, the principal power of the soul; see ii. 3.17, 18.

[305] Here "being" and "essence" have had to be inverted.

[306] Verbal similarity, homonymy, or pun.

[307] See Plato's Sophists, p. 250 c; Cary, 75.

[308] Sophists, p. 254 d; Cary, 86.

[309] As said Aristotle, Met. iv. 2.

[310] Plato, Sophist, p. 245; Cary, 63.

[311] See vi. 9.1.

[312] See vi. 4.

[313] Arist., Met. xiv. 6.

[314] Aristotle. Met. xiv. 6.

[315] See ii. 6.2.

[316] See vi. 7.3-6.

[317] As said Aristotle. Eth. Nic. i. 6.2.

[318] Against Aristotle.

[319] See vi. 1.14.

[320] See iii. 7.11.

[321] To ti ên einai.

[322] See i. 6.

[323] See v. 8.

[324] Counting identity and difference as a composite one? See note 11.

[325] See iv. 9.5.

[326] See iv. 8.3.

[327] See iii. 2.16.

[328] See iv. 8.8.

[329] See iii. 8.7.

[330] See iii. 8.2.

[331] See iii. 2.2.

[332] See iii. 9.1.

[333] See 3.9.1; Timaeus, p. 39; Cary, 14.

[334] See ii. 9.1.

[335] See v. 3.4.

[336] Plato, Philebus, p. 18; Cary, 23.

[337] Plato, Philebus, p. 17 e; Cary, 21.

[338] See iii. 4.1.

[339] See iv. 8.3-7.

[340] See iv. 8.8.

[341] See iv. 4.29.

[342] Here Plotinos purposely mentions Numenius's name for the divinity (fr. 20.6), and disagrees with it, erecting above it a supreme Unity. This, however, was only Platonic, Rep. vi. 19, 509 b., so that Plotinos should not be credited with it as is done by the various histories of philosophy. Even Numenius held the unity, fr. 14.

[343] This means, by mere verbal similarity, "homonymy," or, punning.

[344] As said Plato, in his Philebus, p. 18, Cary, 23.

[345] See i. 1.7.

[346] See Bouillet, vol. 1, p. 380.

[347] See iii. 6.1-5.

[348] See sect. 16.

[349] See ii. 1.2.

[350] Or, mortal nature, or, decay; see i. 8.4; ii. 4.5-6.

[351] See vi. 2.7, 8.

[352] See ii. 4.6.

[353] See vi. 1.13, 14.

[354] In vi. 3.11, and vi. 1.13, 14, he however subsumes time and place under relation.

[355] According to Aristotle, Met. vii. 3.

[356] Aristotle, Met. viii. 5.6.

[357] Aristotle, Categ. ii. 5.

[358] See ii. 5.4.

[359] Met. vii. 11.

[360] Met. vii. 17.

[361] See ii. 4.3-5.

[362] See iii. 6.

[363] Categ. ii. 5.

[364] See iii. 7.8.

[365] See sect. 11.

[366] Arist. Met. vii. 1.

[367] See vi. 1.26.

[368] See ii. 4.10.

[369] See Met. vii. 3.

[370] See vi. 1.2, 3.

[371] See iii. 8.7.

[372] Matter is begotten by nature, which is the inferior power of the universal Soul, iii. 4.1.; and the form derives from Reason, which is the superior power of the same Soul, ii. 3.17.

[373] Met. v. 8.

[374] Being an accident, Met. v. 30, see[434].

[375] See iii. 6.12.

[376] See Categ. ii. 5.1-2.

[377] Plotinos is here defending Plato's valuation of the universal, against Aristotle, in Met. vii. 13.

[378] Arist. de Anima, ii. 1.

[379] See sect. 8.

[380] Plotinos follows Aristotle in his definition of quantity, but subsumes time and place under relation. Plot., vi. 1.4; Arist. Categ. ii. 6.1, 2.

[381] Arist. Met. v. 13.

[382] See vi. 3.5; iii. 6.17.

[383] Categ. ii. 6.

[384] Quoted by Plato in his Hippias, p. 289, Cary, 20.

[385] See Categ. 2.6.

[386] See vi. 1.5.

[387] See sect. 11.

[388] See vi. 6.

[389] Met. v. 6.

[390] Categ. iii. 6.26.

[391] Met. v. 14.

[392] Categ. ii. 6.26.

[393] In speaking of quality, Categ. ii. 8.30.

[394] Following the Latin version of Ficinus.

[395] Bouillet remarks that Plotinos intends to demonstrate this by explaining the term "similarity" not only of identical quality, but also of two beings of which one is the image of the other, as the portrait is the image of the corporeal form, the former that of the "seminal reason," and the latter that of the Idea.

[396] By this Plotinos means the essence, or intelligible form, vi. 7.2.

[397] See vi. 7.3-6.

[398] See iii. 6.4.

[399] In his Banquet, p. 186-188; Cary, 14, 15.

[400] See v. 9.11.

[401] See i. 2.1.

[402] See vi. 7.5.

[403] See iii. 6.4.

[404] Categ. ii. 8.3, 7, 8, 13, 14.

[405] See i. 1.2.

[406] Arist. Categ. ii. 8.8-13.

[407] Met. v. 14.

[408] Met. vii. 12.

[409] Met. v. 14.

[410] Categ. ii. 8.

[411] Arist. Categ. iii. 10.

[412] See vi. 1.17.

[413] Met. v. 10.

[414] Categ. iii. 11.

[415] Categ. iii. 14.

[416] Categ. ii. 7.

[417] By a pun, this "change" is used as synonymous with the "alteration" used further on.

[418] Arist. de Gen. i. 4.

[419] Alteration is change in the category of quality, Arist. de Gen. i. 4; Physics, vii. 2.

[420] Arist. Metaph. ix. 6; xi. 9.

[421] Met. xi. 9.

[422] See ii. 5.1, 2.

[423] See ii. 5.2.

[424] See ii. 5.2.

[425] Categ. iii. 14.

[426] Arist. Met. xi. 9.

[427] See ii. 7.

[428] Arist. de Gen. i. 5.

[429] Arist. de Gen. i. 10.

[430] Here we have Numenius's innate motion of the intelligible, fr. 30.21.

[431] See vi. 1.15-22.

[432] Namely, time, vi. 1.13; place, vi. 1.14; possession, vi. 1.23; location, vi. 1.24.

[433] For relation, see vi. 1.6-9.

[434] For Aristotle says that an accident is something which exists in an object without being one of the distinctive characteristics of its essence.

[435] In this book Plotinos studies time and eternity comparatively; first considering Plato's views in the Timaeus, and then the views of Pythagoras (1), Epicurus (9), the Stoics (7), and Aristotle (4, 8, 12).

[436] The bracketed numbers are those of the Teubner edition; the unbracketed, those of the Didot edition.

[437] See ii. 9.6.

[438] As thought Plato, in his Timaeus, p. 37, Cary, 14.

[439] Stobaeus. Ecl. Phys. i. 248.

[440] A category, see vi. 2.7.

[441] See vi. 2.7.

[442] Or, with Mueller, "therefore, in a permanent future."

[443] De Caelo, i. 9.

[444] That is, with this divinity that intelligible existence is.

[445] Arist. Met. iii. 2.

[446] In the Timaeus, p. 29, Cary 10.

[447] Stob. Ecl. Physic. ix. 40.

[448] Porphyry, Principles, 32, end.

[449] Especially Archytas, Simplicius, Comm. in Phys. Aristot. 165; Stob. Ecl. Physic. Heeren, 248-250.

[450] Stobaeus, 254.

[451] See Stobaeus, 250.

[452] Aristotle, Physica, iv. 12.

[453] Mueller: "Whether this may be predicated of the totality of the movement."

[454] See vi. 6.4-10.

[455] As Aristotle, Phys. iv. 11, claimed.

[456] In Physica, iii. 7.

[457] Stobaeus, Ecl. Phys. ix. 40.

[458] When collectively considered as "A-pollo," following Numenius, 42, 67, Plotinos, v. 5.6.

[459] See ii. 9.3.

[460] See iii. 7.1, Introd.

[461] See iii. 6.16, 17.

[462] Porphyry, Principles, 32.

[463] In the Timaeus, p. 38, Cary, 14.

[464] In his Timaeus, p. 39, Cary, 14, 15.

[465] As by Antiphanes and Critolaus, Stobaeus, Eclog. Phys. ix. 40, p. 252, Heeren.

[466] See iii. 7.2.

[467] As thought Aristotle, de Mem. et Remin. ii. 12.

[468] See iv. 9.

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