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Book I Chapter 47 · I.47.6.1–I.47.6.2
Ancient Greek
p. 9166.1 · Ἀριστοτέλους
Ἐκ τῶν Ἀριστοτέλους Φυσιογνωμονικῶν.
Ὅτι αἱ διάνοιαι ἕπονται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις καὶ οὐκ εἰσὶν αὐταὶ καθ᾽ αὑτάς, ἀπαθεῖς μένουσαι τῶν τοῦ σώματος κινήσεων, τοῦτο δῆλον γίνεται ἐν ταῖς μέθαις καὶ ἀρρωστίαις· πολὺ γὰρ ἐξαλλάττουσαι φαίνονται αἱ διάνοιαι ὑπὸ τῶν τοῦ σώματος παθημάτων. Καὶ τοὐναντίον δὴ τοῖς τῆς ψυχῆς παθήμασι τὸ σῶμα συμπάσχον φανερόν ἐστι περὶ τε τοὺς ἔρωτας καὶ τοὺς φόβους καὶ τὰς λύπας καὶ τὰς ἡδονάς.
6.2
Ἔτι δὲ ἐν τοῖς φύσει γιγνομένοις μᾶλλον ἄν τις συνίδοι, ὅτι οὕτως ἔχει πρὸς ἄλληλα σῶμά τε καὶ ψυχὴ συμφυῆ, ὥστε τῶν πλείστων ἀλλήλοις αἴτια γίγνεσθαι παθημάτων. Οὐδὲν γάρ που ζῷον γεγένηται τοιοῦτον, ὃ τὸ μὲν εἶδος ἔσχηκέ τι ἑτέρου ζῴου, τὴν δὲ διάνοιαν ἄλλου, ἀλλ᾽ ἀεὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ τό τε σῶμα καὶ ἡ ψυχή, ὡς ἀναγκαῖον ἕπεσθαι τῷ τοιῷδε σώματι τοιάνδε διάνοιαν. Ἔτι δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων οἱ περὶ ἕκαστον ἐπιστήμονες ἐκ τῆς ἰδέας δύνανται θεωρεῖν ἱππικοί τε ἵππους καὶ κυνηγετικοὶ κύνας. Εἰ δὴ ταῦτά ἐστιν ἀληθῆ, ἀληθὴς ἂν εἴη ἡ φυσιογνωμονία.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 47
p. 9176.1 · Aristotle: mind and bodily condition
From Aristotle’s Physiognomics.
That mental states follow human beings and do not exist independently, remaining unaffected by the body’s movements, becomes evident in drunkenness and illness: mental states visibly alter greatly under the body’s affections.1180 Conversely, the body manifestly shares in the soul’s affections, in cases of love, fear, grief, and pleasure.1181
6.2 · Natural correspondence and physiognomy
One might see still more clearly in things that develop naturally that body and soul are so related, growing together, that each causes most of the other’s affections. No creature has come into being with the outward form of one animal and the mental disposition of another. Body and soul always belong to the same creature, so that a certain kind of mental disposition necessarily follows a certain kind of body. Moreover, those knowledgeable about each of the other animals can judge it from its appearance: horsemen judge horses, and hunters dogs. If these things are true, physiognomy would be true.1182
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