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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.33.1–I.49.33.2
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p. 116233.1 · Περὶ δυνάμεων ψυχῆς
Ἐν ταὐτῷ· περὶ δυνάμεων ψυχῆς.
Πλάτων μὲν οὖν οὐχ ὡς ἑτέρας τὰς δυνάμεις ἐν ἑτέρᾳ τῇ ψυχῇ ἐνεῖναι ἡγεῖται, συμφύτους δ᾽ αὐτὰς καὶ κατὰ μίαν ἰδέαν συνυφεστηκέναι λέγει διὰ τὴν ἀσύνθετον οὐσίαν τῆς ψυχῆς. Ἀριστοτέλης δὲ ὡσαύτως ἁπλῆν οὐσίαν, ἀσώματον, εἴδους τελεσιουργὸν τὴν τῆς ψυχῆς ὑποθέμενος, οὐ ποιεῖ τὰς δυνάμεις ὡς ἐν συνθέτῳ τινὶ τῇ ψυχῇ παρούσας.
33.2
Ἀλλὰ μὴν οἵ γε ἀπὸ Χρυσίππου καὶ Ζήνωνος φιλόσοφοι καὶ πάντες ὅσοι σῶμα τὴν ψυχὴν νοοῦσι τὰς μὲν δυνάμεις ὡς ἐν τῷ ὑποκειμένῳ ποιότητας συμβιβάζουσι, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν ὡς οὐσίαν προϋποκειμένην ταῖς δυνάμεσι τιθέασιν, ἐκ δ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων τούτων σύνθετον φύσιν ἐξ ἀνομοίων συνάγουσιν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 116333.1 · Powers within an uncompounded soul
In the same work: on the powers of soul.
Plato, then, does not regard the powers as things distinct from soul, residing in soul as something distinct from them. He says instead that they are innate and subsist together under one form, because soul’s substance is uncompounded. Aristotle likewise assumes the substance of soul to be simple, incorporeal, and perfective of form; he does not make its powers present in soul as though it were some composite.1432
33.2 · Powers as qualities of an underlying body
The philosophers who follow Chrysippus and Zeno, however, and all who conceive soul as a body, combine its powers as qualities in an underlying subject. They posit soul as a substance already underlying the powers, and from these two together they construct a composite nature made up of unlike constituents.1433
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