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Single Idea 21817
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Full Idea
The First is no member of existence, but can be the source of all.
Gist of Idea
The One does not exist, but is the source of all existence
Source
Plotinus (The Enneads [c.245], 5.1.07)
Book Ref
Plotinus: 'The Enneads', ed/tr. Mackenna,Stephen [Penguin 1991], p.355
A Reaction
The First is the One, and this explicitly denies that it has Being. This answers the self-predication problem of Forms. Plato thought the Form of the Beautiful was beautiful, but it can't be (because of the regress). The source of existence can't exist.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[concept of a mode of being prior to all others]:
21820
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Parmenides at least saw Being as the same as Nous, and separate from the sensed realm
[Parmenides, by Plotinus]
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21822
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Anaxagoras's concept of supreme Mind has a simple First and a multiple One
[Anaxagoras, by Plotinus]
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21821
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many
[Plato, by Plotinus]
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21818
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Being depends on the Good, which is not itself being, but superior to being
[Plato]
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11286
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Primary being must be more than mere indeterminate ultimate subject of predication
[Politis on Aristotle]
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11234
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The three main candidates for primary being are particular, universal and essence; essence is the answer
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11279
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Primary being is either universals, or the basis of predication, or essence
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11232
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Primary being ('proté ousia') exists in virtue of itself, not in relation to other things
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11293
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Non-primary beings lack essence, or only have a derived essence
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11297
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Primary being is both the essence, and the subject of predication
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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21812
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Being is the product of pure intellect
[Plotinus]
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21817
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The One does not exist, but is the source of all existence
[Plotinus]
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21824
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The One is a principle which transcends Being
[Plotinus]
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22103
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Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being
[Aquinas]
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6920
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Being posits essence, and my essence is my being
[Feuerbach]
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