Existence et identité chez Plotin
Résumé
The aim of this paper is to analyse accurately occurrences of names as huparxis and hupostasis and of the verbe huphistanai that could mean, according to Plotinus, the existence and the fact of existing. The word existence belatedly appears between the Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Starting from the «First Existence», that is the One-Good, that is not an ousia and it is identical to itself, all the other ontological levels are able to «get out of» or «pro-cedere», aren’t they? Therefore we need to show that the identity and the mone in itself of the «First Existence» represent the conditio sine qua non of the existence of the different levels of existing and beings that «get out of it» and «derive from it» in a dynamic way.