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Book I Chapter 48 · I.48.5.1–I.48.5.2
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p. 9565.1 · Τοῦ αὐτοῦ
Τοῦ αὐτοῦ.
Ὁ νοῦς οὐκ ἔστιν ἀρχὴ πάντων· πολλὰ γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νοῦς, πρὸ δὲ τῶν πολλῶν ἀνάγκη εἶναι τὸ ἕν. Ὅτι δὲ πολλὰ ὁ νοῦς δῆλον· νοεῖ γὰρ ἀεὶ τὰ νοήματα, οὐχ ἓν ὄντα, ἀλλὰ πολλὰ καὶ οὐκ ἄλλα ὄντα παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον. Εἰ οὖν ὁ αὐτός ἐστιν αὐτοῖς, ἐκεῖνα δὲ πολλά, πολλὰ ἂν εἴη καὶ ὁ νοῦς.
5.2
Ὅτι δὲ ὁ αὐτός ἐστι τοῖς νοητοῖς, οὕτως δείκνυται. Εἰ γάρ τί ἐστιν ὃ θεωρεῖ, ἤτοι ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἔχων τοῦτο θεωρήσει, ἢ ἐν ἄλλῳ κείμενον. Καὶ ὅτι μὲν θεωρεῖ δῆλον· σὺν γὰρ τῷ νοεῖν εἴη ἂν ὁ νοῦς, ἀφαιρεθεὶς δὲ τοῦ νοεῖν ἀφῄρηται τῆς οὐσίας. Δεῖ τοίνυν ἐπιστήσαντας τοῖς πάθεσιν ἃ συμβαίνει περὶ τὰς γνώσεις ἀνιχνεῦσαι τὴν ἐκείνου θεωρίαν. Γνωστικαὶ δὲ δυνάμεις ἐν ἡμῖν ἀθρόον αἴσθησις, φαντασία, νοῦς.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 48
p. 9575.1 · Porphyry: the One before intellect
By the same author.
Intellect is not the principle of all things, for intellect is many, and before the many there must be the One. That intellect is many is clear: it always thinks its objects of thought, which are many, not one, and are not other than itself. If, then, it is identical with them, and they are many, intellect too would be many.1225
5.2 · Investigating intellectual contemplation
That it is identical with the intelligibles is shown as follows. If there is something that it contemplates, it will contemplate it either as something it has within itself or as something situated elsewhere. That it does contemplate is clear: intellect would exist together with thinking, and deprived of thinking it is deprived of its being. We must therefore attend to the conditions that occur in acts of cognition and trace out its contemplation. Taken together, the cognitive powers in us are perception, imagination, and intellect.1226
Socrates
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