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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.25.3–I.49.25a.1
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p. 109825.3
Κἂν ᾖ δὲ μετὰ συγκαταθέσεως συγκατακειμένη φαντασία δι᾽ αἰσθητηρίου ἡ αἴσθησις, οὐ πάντως καὶ ἀρετῆς μέτοχος ἡ αἴσθησις ἔσται, εἰ μὴ συγκατάθεσις εἴη τῶν ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν.
25a.1 · Τοῦ αὐτοῦ
Τοῦ αὐτοῦ.
Διαπεφώνηται δὲ οὐ τὰ περὶ τούτων μόνον τοῖς παλαιοῖς, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆς τὰ περὶ τῶν μερῶν τῆς ψυχῆς, καὶ ὅλως τί τὸ μέρος καὶ τίς ἡ δύναμις καὶ τίνι ταῦτα διενήνοχεν.
Αὐτίκα οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς Στοᾶς ὀκταμερῆ τὴν ψυχὴν θέντες καὶ πέντε μὲν μέρη τὰ αἰσθητικὰ λαβόντες, ἕκτον δὲ τὸ φωνητικὸν καὶ ἕβδομον τὸ σπερματικόν, [καὶ] λοιπὸν τὸ ἡγεμονικὸν ὡς ἂν ἄρχοντος χώραν ἔχειν ὑπετίθεντο, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα μέρη ἐν ὑπηρέτου τάξει ἀπεδίδοσαν, ὥστε τὸ αὐτὸ ἐξ ἄρχοντος καὶ ἀρχομένων συνεστάναι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 109925.3 · Assent and what is in our control
But even if perception is a presentation through a sense organ combined with assent, perception will not necessarily share in virtue as well, unless assent belongs among the things in our control.1368
25a.1 · Parts and powers: the Stoic division
By the same author.
The ancients disagreed not only about these matters, but also, from the outset, about the parts of the soul: in general, what a part is, what a power is, and how they differ.
For example, the Stoics posited a soul with eight parts. They counted five perceptive parts, a sixth concerned with voice, and a seventh with reproduction, [and] supposed that the remaining part, the ruling faculty, occupied the position of a ruler. They assigned the other parts the rank of a servant, so that the same soul consisted of ruler and ruled.1369
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