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Book I Chapter 47 · I.47.11.2–I.47.12.1
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p. 93211.2
καὶ τῷ μὲν τὰ τοῦ σώματος ἱκανῶς ὑπηρετοίη τῇ διανοίᾳ, τῷ δ᾽ ἐναντιοῖτο; Ἆρ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἄττα ἐστὶν ἢ ταῦτα, οἷς τὸν εὐφυῆ πρὸς ἕκαστα καὶ τὸν μὴ ὡρίζου;
Οὐδείς, ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, ἄλλα φήσει.
12.1 · Πλάτωνος
Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου.
Μέγιστον δὲ καὶ λοιπὸν τῶν κοινῶν περὶ ὅλον τὸ σῶμα παθημάτων, τὸ τῶν ἡδέων καὶ τὸ τῶν ἀλγεινῶν αἴτιον, ἐν οἷς διεληλύθαμεν, καὶ ὅσα διὰ τῶν τοῦ σώματος μορίων αἰσθήσεις κεκτημένα καὶ λύπας ἐν αὐτοῖς ἡδονάς τε ἑπομένας ἔχει. Ὧδ᾽ οὖν κατὰ παντὸς αἰσθητοῦ καὶ ἀναισθήτου παθήματος ⟨τὰς⟩ αἰτίας λαμβάνωμεν, ἀναμιμνησκόμενοι τὸ τῆς εὐκινήτου τε καὶ δυσκινήτου φύσεως ὅ τι διειλόμεθα ἐν τοῖς πρόσθεν· ταύτῃ γὰρ μεταδιωκτέον πάντα ὅσα ἐπινοοῦμεν ἑλεῖν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 47
p. 93311.2 · The body’s assistance to thought
“And when in one person the bodily faculties adequately serve thought, while in another they oppose it? Was it by anything other than these criteria that you distinguished the person naturally fitted for each activity from the person who is not?”
“No one,” he said, “will name any others.”1201
12.1 · Plato: the causes of sensation
From Plato, from the Timaeus.
The greatest subject still remaining among the affections common to the whole body is the cause of pleasant and painful experiences among those we have discussed, and of all the experiences that acquire sensations through the bodily parts and have pains and consequent pleasures within them. Let us therefore grasp ⟨the⟩ causes of every perceived and unperceived affection in this way, recalling the distinction we made earlier between a nature easily moved and one difficult to move. By this route we must pursue everything we intend to grasp.1202
Socrates
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