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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.20–I.49.21.1
Ancient Greek
p. 108020 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ἐν ταὐτῷ.
Ἡ ψυχὴ οὐσία ἀμεγέθης, ἄυλος, ἄφθαρτος, ἐν ζωῇ παρ᾽ ἑαυτῆς ἐχούσῃ τὸ ζῆν κεκτημένη τὸ εἶναι.
21.1 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ἐν ταὐτῷ.
Ἄλλο τὸ πάσχειν τῶν σωμάτων, ἄλλο τῶν ἀσωμάτων. Τῶν μὲν γὰρ σωμάτων σὺν τροπῇ τὸ πάσχειν· τῆς δὲ ψυχῆς αἱ οἰκειώσεις καὶ τὰ πάθη ἐνέργειαι, οὐδὲν ἐοικυῖαι θερμάνσει καὶ ψύξει σωμάτων. Διὸ εἴπερ τὸ πάσχειν πάντως σὺν τροπῇ, ἀπαθῆ ῥητέον παντελῶς τὰ ἀσώματα. Τὰ μὲν γὰρ ὕλης κεχωρισμένα καὶ σωμάτων ἐνεργείαις ἦν τὰ αὐτά· τὰ δ᾽ ὕλῃ πλησιάζοντα καὶ σώμασιν αὐτὰ μὲν ἀπαθῆ, τὰ δὲ ἐφ᾽ ὧν θεωρεῖται πάσχει.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 108120 · A substance whose being is in life
In the same work.
Soul is a substance without magnitude, immaterial and indestructible, possessing its being in a life that has its living from itself.1348
21.1 · How bodies and souls are affected
In the same work.
Being affected is one thing for bodies and another for incorporeal things. For bodies, being affected involves alteration. But the soul’s attachments and affections are activities, bearing no resemblance to the heating and cooling of bodies. So if being affected invariably involves alteration, incorporeal things must be called wholly unaffected. For those separated from matter and bodies were identical with activities; those that approach matter and bodies are themselves unaffected, while the things in which they are observed are affected.1349
Socrates
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