Sobre o conceito plotiniano de dúnamis e sua relação com as noções de matéria, um e a alma

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Nathalia Ferreira de Avila Carvalho
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Filosofia; Neoplatonismo; Metafísica
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUBD-9ZYHVM

Our point of departure is the book of the Metaphysics, and also the 25th treatise of the Enneads, named ''On what is potentially and what is actually'' and through the latters relation with another works we aim to a) sustaining the argument which claims that the neoplatonist creates a notion of dúnamis that is very different from the Aristotelian concept in the Metaphysics . Through the Stagirite's treatise, altogether with some considerations on the late antiquity period, and also on Plato's works, we will b) show that part of the configuration of this problem occurs because in the second Ennead Plotinus give us a position that follows Aristotle's ones closely, when he distinguishes being potentially and potency (namely, dúnamei and dúnamis). The distances are obvious when Plotinus connects potency to the properties of the intellect and the one, and to the activities of the soul. And such distances are are better understood when we comprehend the previous and contemporary periods in relation to Plotinus' philosophy, in which the concept of dúnamis is attached to the possibility of thinking the divine, in a very different way in comparison to Aristotle, for he had not known neither the stoic logos spermatikós, nor the monism inherent to the middle-platonism period. Well, it's obvious that thinking the divine excludes the problem of movement out of the discussion about potency. Likewise, we aim to explain that c) the activity and importance of what Plotinus understands as the intellect and the one subvert Aristotle's Metaphysics, because it demands that potency should be by itself a type of action.