Abstract

DE BLASSI, Fernando G. Martin. The Topological Position of Plotinus and the Metaphysical Beginning of Medieval philo-sophia. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.2, pp.41-73.  Epub Feb 28, 2023. ISSN 1851-8753.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.35.016.

This paper aims to understand the metaphysical originality of the plotinian philosophy, by responding to a reading favored by the Enneads. It is adopted for the analysis of the texts a topological and not merely historiographic interpretation criterion. From the doctrinal point of view, the Plotinus’ rational thought is considered as the first satisfactory answer to the unprecedented historical irruption of the medieval principle about the absolute difference between the first cause and its effects. The munificent power of the One-Good, transcendent even to the categorical order, demands a conversion of intelligence, insofar as the intelligible substance constitutes itself only when it turns towards its own origin. In this sense, even if the first principle is made known through vestiges, it is not for this reason that it is dispersed in the multiple but that it conserves the world through an incessant donation of being.

Keywords : absolute difference; Plotinus; hypostatic procession; self..

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