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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.30.1
Ancient Greek
p. 113430.1 · Πλάτωνος Πολιτείας δʹ
Πλάτωνος Πολιτείας δʹ.
Τόδε δὲ ἤδη χαλεπόν, εἰ τῷ αὐτῷ τούτῳ ἕκαστα πράττομεν, ἢ τρισὶν οὖσιν ἄλλο ἄλλῳ· μανθάνομεν μὲν ἑτέρῳ, θυμούμεθα δὲ ἄλλῳ τῶν ἐν ἡμῖν, ἐπιθυμοῦμεν δ᾽ αὖ τρίτῳ τινὶ τῶν περὶ τὴν τροφήν τε καὶ γέννησιν ἡδονῶν καὶ ὅσα τούτων ἀδελφά, ἢ ὅλῃ τῇ ψυχῇ καθ᾽ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν πράττομεν, ὅταν ὁρμήσωμεν. Ταῦτ᾽ ἔσται τὰ χαλεπὰ διορίσασθαι ἀξίως λόγου. - Καὶ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, ἔφη.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 113530.1 · Plato: one power or several?
From Plato’s Republic, Book IV.
“The difficult question is whether we perform each action with this same thing, or, since there are three, one action with one and another with another: whether we learn with one of the things within us, become angry with another, and desire the pleasures of food, reproduction, and related things with a third; or whether we act with the whole soul in each of these cases whenever we are moved to act. These will be the difficult distinctions to establish adequately.”
“So it seems to me too,” he said.1403
Socrates
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