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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.6.14–I.41.6.15
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p. 8626.14
Διόπερ τὰς αἰσθήσεις καὶ σωματικὰς καὶ θνητάς φημι εἶναι, τοσοῦτον συνεστώσας, ὅσον καὶ τὸ σῶμα. Καὶ γὰρ συγγεννῶνται τῷ σώματι αἱ αἰσθήσεις καὶ συναποθνῄσκουσι· τὰ δὲ ἀθάνατα σώματα αὐτὰ μὲν [ἀθάνατον] αἴσθησιν οὐκ ἔχει, ὡς ἐξ οὐσίας τοιαύτης συνεστῶτα· ἡ γὰρ αἴσθησις οὐδ᾽ ὅλως ἄλλου ἐστὶ [σωματικὴ] ἢ τοῦ προσγενομένου τῷ σώματι κακοῦ ἢ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἢ τοῦ πάλιν αὖ ἀπογενομένου. Τοῖς δὲ ἀιδίοις σώμασιν οὔτε προσγίνεταί ⟨τι⟩ οὔτε ἀπογίνεται· διὸ αἴσθησις ἐν ἐκείνοις οὐ γίνεται.
6.15
⟨ΤΑΤ⟩ Ἐν παντὶ οὖν σώματι αἴσθησις αἰσθάνεται;
⟨ΕΡΜ.⟩ Ἐν παντί, ὦ τέκνον, καὶ ἐνέργειαι ⟨ἐν⟩ πᾶσιν ἐνεργοῦσι.
⟨ΤΑΤ⟩ Καὶ τοῖς ἀψύχοις, ὦ πάτερ;
⟨ΕΡΜ.⟩ Καὶ ⟨τοῖς⟩ ἀψύχοις, ὦ τέκνον. Διαφοραὶ δὲ εἰσι τῶν αἰσθήσεων· αἱ μὲν τῶν λογικῶν μετὰ λόγου γίγνονται, αἱ δὲ τῶν ἀλόγων σωματικαί εἰσι μόνον, αἱ δὲ τῶν ἀψύχων αἰσθήσεις μέν εἰσι, παθητικαὶ δὲ κατὰ αὔξησιν μόνον καὶ κατὰ μείωσιν γιγνόμεναι. Τὸ δὲ πάθος καὶ ⟨ἡ⟩ αἴσθησις ἀπὸ μιᾶς κορυφῆς ἤρτηνται, εἰς δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ συνάγονται, ὑπὸ δὴ τῶν ἐνεργειῶν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8636.14 · Perception and change
That is why I say that perceptions are both bodily and mortal, lasting only as long as the body. Perceptions are born together with the body and die with it. Immortal bodies themselves have no [immortal] perception, being constituted from a substance of that kind. For [bodily] perception is of nothing at all other than an evil or a good that has come to the body, or something that has departed from it again. But there is not ⟨anything⟩ that comes to everlasting bodies or departs from them; hence perception does not arise in them.1112
6.15 · Perception in different beings
⟨TAT⟩ Does perception, then, perceive in every body?
⟨HERMES⟩ In every body, my child; activities also act ⟨in⟩ all.
⟨TAT⟩ Even in lifeless things, father?
⟨HERMES⟩ Even in ⟨the⟩ lifeless things, my child. But perceptions differ. Those of rational beings occur with reason; those of irrational beings are bodily only; those of lifeless things are indeed perceptions, but passive ones, occurring only through increase and diminution. Affection and ⟨the⟩ perception depend upon a single summit and are brought to the same point by the activities themselves.1113
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