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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.6.18–I.41.7.1
Ancient Greek
p. 8666.18
⟨ΤΑΤ⟩ Οὐχ ἡ μὲν ψυχὴ ἀσώματος, ἡ δὲ αἴσθησις σῶμα ἂν εἴη, ὦ πάτερ, ⟨εἰ⟩ ἡ αἴσθησις [ἡ] ἐν σώματι οὖσα τυγχάνει;
⟨ΕΡΜ.⟩ Ἐὰν ἐν σώματι αὐτὴν θῶμεν, ὦ τέκνον, ὁμοίαν τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτὴν ἀποφανοῦμεν ἢ ταῖς ἐνεργείαις· ταῦτα γὰρ ἀσώματα ὄντα φαμὲν ἐν σώμασιν. Ἡ δὲ αἴσθησις οὔτε ἐνέργειά ἐστιν οὔτε ψυχὴ οὔτε ἀσώματόν τι ἄλλο παρὰ τὰ προειρημένα, οὐκ ἂν οὖν εἴη ἀσώματον· εἰ δ᾽ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀσώματον, σῶμα ἂν εἴη· τῶν γὰρ ὄντων δεῖ τὰ μὲν σώματα εἶναι, τὰ δὲ ἀσώματα.
7.1
Ἑρμοῦ ἐκ τῶν πρὸς Ἄμμωνα.
Κινεῖται δὲ τὸ κινούμενον κατ᾽ ἐνέργειαν τῆς κινήσεως τῆς κινούσης τὸ πᾶν. Ἡ γὰρ φύσις τοῦ παντὸς τῷ παντὶ παρέχει κινήσεις, μίαν μὲν τὴν κατὰ δύναμιν αὐτῆς, ἑτέραν δὲ τὴν κατ᾽ ἐνέργειαν· καὶ ἡ μὲν διήκει διὰ τοῦ σύμπαντος κόσμου καὶ ἐντὸς συνέχει· ἡ δὲ παρήκει καὶ ἐκτὸς περιέχει· καὶ διὰ πάντων πεφοιτήκασι κοινῇ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8676.18 · Is perception a body?
⟨TAT⟩ Is not the soul incorporeal, while perception would be a body, father, ⟨if⟩ perception happens to be in a body?1116
⟨HERMES⟩ If we place it in a body, my child, we shall declare it similar to the soul or to activities; for we say that these are in bodies although incorporeal. But perception is neither activity nor soul nor any other incorporeal thing besides those already mentioned. It would therefore not be incorporeal; and if it is not incorporeal, it would be a body. For of existing things, some must be bodies and others incorporeal.1117
7.1 · Hermes: nature and motion
From Hermes, from the writings To Ammon.
What is moved moves through the activity of the motion that moves the whole. For the nature of the whole provides the whole with movements: one according to its power, the other according to activity. The former passes through the entire cosmos and holds it together from within; the latter extends around it and encloses it from outside. Together they have permeated all things.1118
Socrates
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