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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.6.12–I.41.6.13
Ancient Greek
p. 8606.12
Οὗτος οὖν ὁ λόγος, ὦ τέκνον, συνάγει πάντα μεστὰ εἶναι ἐνεργειῶν. Εἰ γὰρ ἀνάγκη τὰς ἐνεργείας ἐν σώμασιν εἶναι, πολλὰ δὲ σώματα ἐν κόσμῳ, πλείους φημὶ εἶναι τὰς ἐνεργείας τῶν σωμάτων. Ἐν ἑνὶ γὰρ πολλάκις σώματί ἐστι μία καὶ δευτέρα καὶ τρίτη χωρὶς τῶν παρεπομένων καθολικῶν· καθολικὰς γὰρ ἐνεργείας φημὶ τὰς ὄντως σωματικάς, διὰ δὲ τῶν αἰσθήσεων καὶ τῶν κινήσεων γινομένας· χωρὶς γὰρ τούτων τῶν ἐνεργειῶν τὸ σῶμα συστῆναι οὐ δυνατόν.
6.13
Ἕτεραι δέ εἰσιν εἰδικαὶ ἐνέργειαι ταῖς ψυχαῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων διὰ τεχνῶν καὶ ἐπιστημῶν καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων καὶ ἐνεργημάτων. Παρέπονται γὰρ ταῖς ἐνεργείαις αἱ αἰσθήσεις, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀποτελέσματα τῶν ἐνεργειῶν ⟨αἱ⟩ αἰσθήσεις εἰσί. Νόησον οὖν, ὦ τέκνον, διαφορὰν ἐνεργείας ⟨καὶ αἰσθήσεως· ἡ μὲν ἐνέργεια⟩ ἄνωθεν πέμπεται· ἡ δὲ αἴσθησις ἐν τῷ σώματι οὖσα καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου τὴν οὐσίαν ἔχουσα, δεξαμένη τὴν ἐνέργειαν φανερὰν ποιεῖ, καθάπερ αὐτὴν σωματοποιήσασα.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8616.12 · More activities than bodies
This argument, then, my child, concludes that everything is full of activities. For if activities must be in bodies, and there are many bodies in the cosmos, I say that activities are more numerous than bodies. Often in one body there is one activity, a second, and a third, apart from the general activities that accompany it. By general activities I mean those that are bodily in the proper sense and occur through perceptions and movements; for without these activities a body cannot be constituted.1110
6.13 · Activity made perceptible
There are other, specific activities in human souls through skills, knowledge, pursuits, and actions. Perceptions follow activities; or rather, ⟨the⟩ perceptions are the results of activities. Understand, then, my child, the difference between activity ⟨and perception. Activity⟩ is sent from above; perception, being in the body and deriving its being from it, receives the activity and makes it manifest, as though giving it a body.1111
Socrates
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