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Book I Chapter 1 · I.1.29b.2
Ancient Greek
p. 6429b ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ (βʹ)
Διογένης καὶ Κλεάνθης καὶ Οἰνοπίδης τὴν τοῦ κόσμου ψυχήν.
Πυθαγόρας τῶν ἀρχῶν τὴν μὲν μονάδα θεὸν καὶ τἀγαθόν, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἡ τοῦ ἑνὸς φύσις καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ νοῦς, τὴν ⟨δ’⟩ ἀόριστον δυάδα ⟨δαίμονα⟩ καὶ τὸ κακόν, περὶ ἣν ἐστι τὸ ὑλικὸν πλῆθος.
Ποσειδώνιος πνεῦμα νοερὸν καὶ πυρῶδες, οὐκ ἔχον μὲν μορφήν, μεταβάλλον δὲ εἰς ὃ βούλεται καὶ συνεξομοιούμενον πᾶσιν.
Σπεύσιππος τὸν νοῦν οὔτε τῷ ἑνὶ οὔτε τῷ ἀγαθῷ τὸν αὐτόν, ἰδιοφυῆ δέ.
Κριτόλαος καὶ Διόδωρος ὁ Τύριος νοῦν ἀπ’ αἰθέρος ἀπαθοῦς.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 1
p. 6529b ⟨Aëtius⟩ (2)
Diogenes, Cleanthes, and Oenopides identify God with the soul of the cosmos.
Of the first principles, Pythagoras identifies the monad with God and the good: it is the nature of the One and mind itself. ⟨But⟩ the indefinite dyad he identifies with ⟨a divine spirit⟩ and evil; material plurality belongs to it.67
Posidonius identifies God with an intelligent, fiery breath, having no form but changing into whatever it wishes and assimilating itself to all things.
Speusippus holds that mind is identical neither with the One nor with the good, but has a nature of its own.
Critolaus and Diodorus of Tyre identify God with mind derived from aether that is unaffected by change.68
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