Why do misunderstandings arise between man and man, woman and woman, man and woman?
Porphyry explains it to us in his extraordinary book on Intelligibles (tenth Sententia),
We are composite beings, and we think compositely, and we are dependent on a composite environment, and each part of which the composite consists thinks, understands, and feels differently:
Πάντα μὲν ἐν πᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ οἰκείως τῇ ἑκάστου οὐσίᾳ" ἐν νῷ μὲν γὰρ νοερῶς, ἐν ψυχῇ δὲ λογικῶς, ἐν δὲ τοῖς φυτοῖς σπερματικῶς, ἐν δὲ σώμασιν εἰδωλικῶς, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἐπέκεινα ἀνεννοήτως τε καὶ ὑπερουσίως.
Non eodem modo intelligimus in omnibus, sed secundum propriam cujusque substantiam: nam in intellectu intellectualiter; in anima rationaliter; at in plantis seminative; in corporibus imaginarie; in eo quod super haec omnia est, supra citraque intellectum atque superessentialiter
Porphyry explains it to us in his extraordinary book on Intelligibles (tenth Sententia),
We are composite beings, and we think compositely, and we are dependent on a composite environment, and each part of which the composite consists thinks, understands, and feels differently:
Πάντα μὲν ἐν πᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ οἰκείως τῇ ἑκάστου οὐσίᾳ" ἐν νῷ μὲν γὰρ νοερῶς, ἐν ψυχῇ δὲ λογικῶς, ἐν δὲ τοῖς φυτοῖς σπερματικῶς, ἐν δὲ σώμασιν εἰδωλικῶς, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἐπέκεινα ἀνεννοήτως τε καὶ ὑπερουσίως.
Non eodem modo intelligimus in omnibus, sed secundum propriam cujusque substantiam: nam in intellectu intellectualiter; in anima rationaliter; at in plantis seminative; in corporibus imaginarie; in eo quod super haec omnia est, supra citraque intellectum atque superessentialiter
(Translated by Marsilio Ficino)
"We do not understand similarly in all things, but in a manner adapted to the essence of each. For intellectual objects we understand intellectually; but those that pertain to soul rationally. We apprehend plants spermatically; but bodies idolically (i.e., as images); and that which is above all these, super-intellectually and super-essentially."
"We do not understand similarly in all things, but in a manner adapted to the essence of each. For intellectual objects we understand intellectually; but those that pertain to soul rationally. We apprehend plants spermatically; but bodies idolically (i.e., as images); and that which is above all these, super-intellectually and super-essentially."
(Translated by Thomas Taylor)
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