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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.37.7–I.49.37.8
Ancient Greek
p. 118837.7
Ἐπὶ δὴ τούτοις δεῖ νοεῖν ὡς οἱ μὲν Στωικοὶ πάσας τῆς ὁποιασοῦν ψυχῆς τὰς ἐνεργείας συμμιγνύουσιν τοῖς διοικουμένοις καὶ ἀψύχοις, οἱ δ᾽ ἀπὸ Πλάτωνος οὐ πάσας. Εἶναι μὲν γάρ τινας δυνάμεις τῆς ψυχῆς αἳ τοῦ σώματος ὡς ὕλης ἐφάπτονται, ὡς τὴν αἰσθητικὴν καὶ ὁρμητικήν, καθαρωτέρας δὲ τούτων τὰς μηδὲν σώματι προσχρωμένας, ὡς τὴν νοεράν.
37.8
Τὰ μὲν οὖν τῶν σωματοειδῶν δυνάμεων ἔργα κατ᾽ οὐσίαν μὲν Πλάτων οὐ συνάπτει τοῖς σώμασιν, κατ᾽ ἐπιστροφὴν δὲ κοινωνεῖν φησί, τὰ δὲ τῶν χωριστῶν ἀπολύει πάντῃ τοῦ κατατείνεσθαι εἰς τὰ σώματα.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 118937.7 · Powers that engage with body
Next we must understand that the Stoics mingle all the activities of any soul whatever with the things it governs and which are in themselves soulless; Plato’s followers do not mingle all of them. For some powers of soul engage with body as their matter, such as the powers of perception and impulse. Purer than these are those that make no use of body at all, such as the intellectual power.1461
37.8 · Association through a turning toward
Plato, then, does not connect the works of powers having a bodily character with bodies in respect of substance; he says that they share in them through a turning toward them. But he frees the works of separate powers entirely from being directed into bodies.1462
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