Imitations of Beings Enter and Exit： Plotinus on Incorporeal Matter in Plato： Ⅲ 6[26] 11-15  

作　　者：Gary M. Gurtler, S.J. 

机构地区：[1]Boston College

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2013年第2期123-130,共8页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Plotinus＇ account of matter in Ennead III 6[26] 11-15 serves two purposes. The terms, evil and ugly, present the negative side of matter＇s causality, providing for the change characteristic of the sensible world and the possibility of ontological evil and privation as well as of moral evil among human beings. The receptacle and other images from Plato＇s Timaeus present the positive side of this causality, matter as allowing for the presence of forms in the bodies of the sensible world. Plotinus explicitly articulates the linguistic problem surrounding the nature of matter, since language is derived from the corporeal and thus needs constant correction when applied to matter as incorporeal. His use of language, thus, always has two phases, first, capturing the nature of matter as aptly as possible, and second, highlighting the difference between matter and the image, analogy, or metaphor used to help explain it.

关 键 词：MATTER EVIL RECEPTACLE chora form good APPEARANCE Timaeus 

分 类 号：O1-0[理学—数学] O156.4[理学—基础数学]