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Headword:
*(omoi/wsis
Adler number: omicron,314
Translated headword: assimilation, becoming like
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "['Becoming like' is] twofold: the one [that makes reference] to the same [form], and the one [that makes reference to] a different [form]." But when
Plotinus says “becoming like a god”, it should be taken in a different way.[1]
Greek Original:*(omoi/wsis ditth/, h( me/n tis tau)to/n, h( de\ e(/teron. o(/te de\ le/gei *plwti=nos: o(moi/wsis qew=|, a)/llon tro/pon lhpte/on.
Notes:
For this headword see already
omicron 313.
[1] cf.
Plotinus Enneads, 1.2.2.4-10. According to
Plotinus' text, it is plain that the word "form" (
ei)=dos) should be assumed. In the passage at issue
Plotinus says: "the one demands the presence of the same form in those things that are similar". See
phi 238.
Keywords: definition; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 5 January 2007@16:09:42.
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