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  1. Porphyry and plotinus on the seed.James Wilberding - 2008 - Phronesis 53 (4-5):406-432.
    Porphyry's account of the nature of seeds can shed light on some less appreciated details of Neoplatonic psychology, in particular on the interaction between individual souls. The process of producing the seed and the conception of the seed offer a physical instantiation of procession and reversion, activities that are central to Neoplatonic metaphysics. In an act analogous to procession, the seed is produced by the father's nature, and as such it is ontologically inferior to the father's nature. Thus, the seed (...)
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  • El primer principio, 'Potencia de todas las cosas', En Plotino.José María Zamora Calvo - 2016 - Endoxa 38:131-144.
    Plotino denomina al Uno-Bien potencia de todas las cosas, o potencia total. Asimismo, el primer principio es designado como más allá del ser, anterior o superior a todas las cosas, pero nunca dice que sea anterior o superior a la potencia. El Uno no es ninguna de todas las cosas, es decir, es “diferente de todas las cosas”, porque es “anterior a todas ellas” y está “más allá de todas las cosas”, porque es “principio de todas las cosas”, “causa de (...)
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  • Plotinus' Unaffectable Matter.Christopher Isaac Noble - 2013 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 44:233-277.
    In this paper, I investigate the foundations of Plotinus’ innovative theory that prime matter is unaffectable. I begin by showing that Plotinus’ main arguments for this thesis (in Ennead 3.6) all rely upon the controversial assumption that the properties prime matter underlies are not properties of prime matter itself. It is then argued that prime matter’s privation of sensible qualities has its conceptual basis in an idiosyncratic understanding of form-matter composition generally, and its primary doctrinal basis in Aristotle’s critical reports (...)
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