Affections and the impassible soul in Plotinus

In Ennead IV, 7, Plotinus affirms that the nature of man is not simple, since he has a soul and a body. The Plotinian doctrine of the relations between the soul and the body is a complex one: the body is not united with the soul, but with a kind of image of the soul. This composite of body and image...

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Autor: Brandão, Bernardo Lins
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Faculdade de São Bento (FSB)
Repositorio:Hypnos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.hypnos.org.br:article/164
Acceso en línea:https://hypnos.org.br/index.php/hypnos/article/view/164
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Plotinus
affections
Soul
impassibility
Plotino
afecções
alma
impassibilidade
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Sumario:In Ennead IV, 7, Plotinus affirms that the nature of man is not simple, since he has a soul and a body. The Plotinian doctrine of the relations between the soul and the body is a complex one: the body is not united with the soul, but with a kind of image of the soul. This composite of body and image of soul is the seat of the affections. In this paper, I study what Plotinus says in III, 6 about the origin of the affections in the composite and how it relates with the soul and its impassibility.