Existents

While interned in the Fallingsbotel camp near Hanover, Levinas studied Hegel and began work on Existence and Existents.

Emmanuel Levinas Bergo, Bettina 2007

January 2001, revised July 2006Appearances of Truly Existents and of Non-truly Existents

Impure and Pure Appearances According to Non-Gelug 2006

Existents include affirmation phenomena (sgrub-pa, affirmingly known phenomenon, affirmation) and negation phenomena (dgag-pa, negatingly known phenomenon, negation, refutation).

Affirmations, Negations, and Denumerable and Nondenumerable Ultimate Phenomena 2006

Existents (yod-pa) are defined in Buddhism as what are validly knowable (shes-bya).

Affirmations, Negations, and Denumerable and Nondenumerable Ultimate Phenomena 2006

Intelligence, since it connotes intelligent Being and comprises the total of existence, cannot be one of the genera: the true Intelligence [or Intellect] is Being taken with all its concomitants [with the other four genera]; it is actually the sum of all the Existents: Being on the contrary, stripped of its concomitants, may be counted as a genus and held to an element in

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Existents of that Other World, either associated with them or known in and upon them, they collectively being this Nature which, with all its unity, is yet diverse in power and essence.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

We assert, then, a plurality of Existents, but a plurality not fortuitous and therefore a plurality deriving from a unity.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

If the equivocation exists, the number of genera will be increased: if there is no equivocation, it is strange to find the one same “Existence” applying to the primary and to the derivative Existents when there is no common genus embracing both primal and secondary.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Thus all the Existents are one, at once Motion and Stability; Motion and

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

There is however a difference between speaking of the actual Existents and of their principles.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952