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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.25a.4–I.49.25a.5
Ancient Greek
p. 110225a.4
Ῥητέον δὲ ὡς δύναμις μέρους διήνεγκεν, ὅτι τὸ μὲν μέρος ἐκβέβηκε κατὰ γένος τὸν χαρακτῆρα τοῦ ἄλλου μέρους, αἱ δὲ δυνάμεις περὶ τὸ αὐτὸ στρέφονται γένος. Διὸ τὰ μὲν μέρη παρῃτεῖτο Ἀριστοτέλης ἐπὶ τῆς ψυχῆς, τὰς δὲ δυνάμεις οὐκέτι· τὸ γὰρ ἑτερομερὲς εὐθὺς ὑποκειμένου παραλλαγὴν εἰσάγειν, τὸ δὲ ἑτεροδύναμον καὶ περὶ ἓν ὑποκείμενον ἐνίστασθαι.
25a.5
Λογγῖνος δὲ οὐδὲ τὸ ζῷον πολυμερὲς εἶναι ἀλλ᾽ ἀμερές, πολυδύναμον δέ, τὸ τοῦ Πλάτωνος ἐν τοῖς σώμασι πολυμερῆ φάσκων τὴν ψυχὴν γίγνεσθαι, καθ᾽ ἑαυτὴν οὖσαν ἀμερῆ· ὅτι δὲ οὐ πολυμερής, οὐ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ μονοδύναμος· ἐνδέχεσθαι γὰρ ἓν ἀμερὲς δυνάμεις πλείους ἔχειν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 110325a.4 · Parts require a different underlying subject
We must explain how a power differs from a part. A part differs in kind from the character of another part, whereas powers concern the same kind. That is why Aristotle rejected parts in the case of the soul, but did not reject powers: having different parts immediately introduces a difference in the underlying subject, whereas having different powers can occur in one underlying subject.1372
25a.5 · Longinus: one thing with many powers
Longinus holds that even the living creature does not have many parts, but is without parts while having many powers. He cites Plato’s saying that soul becomes divided into many parts in bodies, although in itself it is without parts. Because it does not have many parts, it does not follow that it has only one power: a single thing without parts can have several powers.1373
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