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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.35.3–I.49.36.1
Ancient Greek
p. 117435.3
Οἱ δὲ περὶ Πορφύριον καὶ Πλωτῖνον ἑκάστῳ μέρει τοῦ παντὸς τὰς οἰκείας δυνάμεις προβάλλεσθαι ὑπὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀποφαίνονται, καὶ ἀφίεσθαι μὲν καὶ μηκέτι εἶναι τὰς ζωὰς τὰς ὁπωσοῦν προβληθείσας [οἱ περὶ Πορφύριον καὶ Πλωτῖνον Πλατωνικοὶ] ἀφορίζονται παραπλησίως τοῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ σπέρματος φυομένοις, ὁπόταν εἰς ἑαυτὸ ἀναδράμῃ τὸ σπέρμα·
35.4
εἶναι δὲ καὶ ταύτας ἐν τῷ παντὶ καὶ μὴ ἀπόλλυσθαι τάχα ἄν τις ἐπινοήσειε καινότερον, οὐκ ἀπιθάνως.
36.1 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ἐν ταὐτῷ· περὶ τῶν ἐνεργειῶν τῆς ψυχῆς.
Τίς οὖν ἀνήκοός ἐστι τῆς Περιπατητικῆς δόξης, ἣ τὴν ψυχὴν ἀκίνητον μὲν εἶναί φησιν, αἰτίαν δὲ κινήσεων; Εἰ δὴ καὶ ἀνενέργητόν ἐστι τὸ ἀκίνητον, ἔσται καὶ χορηγὸν τῶν ἐνεργειῶν τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀνενέργητον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 117535.3 · Powers projected into the whole
The followers of Porphyry and Plotinus declare that soul projects into each part of the whole the powers appropriate to it. They [the Platonists around Porphyry and Plotinus] determine that the lives projected in whatever way are relinquished and cease to exist, much as things growing from a seed do whenever the seed withdraws into itself;1446
35.4 · A possible alternative
but someone might perhaps devise a more novel view, not implausibly: that these lives too remain in the whole and do not perish.1447
36.1 · Soul’s activities: motion and rest
In the same work: on the activities of soul.
Who, then, has not heard the Peripatetic opinion that soul is itself unmoved but is a cause of motions? If what is unmoved is also inactive, the inactivity of soul will also be the source that supplies its activities.1448
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