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Book I Chapter 47 · I.47.13.3–I.47.13.4
Ancient Greek
p. 94013.3
Καὶ ῥίγους ἡ μὲν παρὰ φύσιν τοῦ ζῴου τῆς ὑγρότητος πῆξις [καὶ] λύπη· πάλιν δ᾽ εἰς ταὐτὸν ἀπιόντων καὶ διακρινομένων ἡ κατὰ φύσιν ὁδὸς ἡδονή. Καὶ ἑνὶ λόγῳ σκόπει εἴ σοι μέτριος ⟨ὁ⟩ λόγος, ὃς ἂν φῇ, τὸ ἐκ τῆς ἀπείρου καὶ πέρατος κατὰ φύσιν ἔμψυχον γεγονὸς εἶδος, ὅπερ ἐν τῷ πρόσθεν ἔλεγον, ὅταν μὲν τοῦτο φθείρηται, τὴν φθορὰν λύπην εἶναι, τὴν δ᾽ εἰς τὴν αὑτῶν οὐσίαν ὁδόν, ταύτην δὲ αὖ πάλιν τὴν ἀναχώρησιν πάντων ἡδονήν.
Ἔστω· δοκεῖ γάρ μοι τύπον γέ τινα ἔχειν.
13.4
Τοῦτο μὲν τοίνυν ἓν εἶδος τιθώμεθα λύπης τε καὶ ἡδονῆς ἐν τούτοις τοῖς πάθεσιν ἑκατέροις;
Κείσθω.
Τίθει τοίνυν αὐτῆς τῆς ψυχῆς κατὰ τὸ τούτων τῶν παθημάτων προσδόκημα, τὸ μὲν πρὸ τῶν ἡδέων ἐλπιζόμενον ⟨ἡδὺ⟩ καὶ θαρραλέον, τὸ δὲ πρὸ τῶν λυπ⟨ηρ⟩ῶν φοβερὸν καὶ ἀλγεινόν.
Ἔστι γὰρ οὖν τοῦθ᾽ ἡδονῆς καὶ λύπης ἕτερον εἶδος, τὸ χωρὶς τοῦ σώματος αὐτῆς τῆς ψυχῆς διὰ προσδοκίας γιγνόμενον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 47
p. 94113.3 · Cold and return to the natural condition
“Likewise, the unnatural congealing of a creature’s moisture through cold is [also] pain; when its constituents return to the same condition and separate again, their natural course is pleasure. In a word, consider whether ⟨the⟩ following account seems adequate to you. When the form that has naturally become ensouled from the unlimited and limit, as I said earlier, is damaged, that damage is pain; the journey back to the constituents’ own being, this return of them all, is pleasure.”
“Let it stand; it seems to me to provide at least an outline.”1209
13.4 · Pleasure and pain in expectation
“Shall we therefore set this down as one kind of pain and of pleasure in these respective affections?”
“Let it be set down.”
“Then set down what belongs to the soul itself in anticipation of these affections: what is hoped for before pleasant experiences is ⟨pleasant⟩ and encouraging, while what precedes painful experiences is fearful and distressing.”
“For this is indeed another kind of pleasure and pain: what arises in the soul itself, apart from the body, through expectation.”1210
Socrates
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