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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.32.10–I.49.32.11
Ancient Greek
p. 115432.10
Ἴθι δὴ οὖν ἐπὶ τὴν καθ᾽ αὐτὴν ἀσώματον οὐσίαν ἐπανίωμεν, διακρίνοντες καὶ ἐπ᾽ αὐτῆς ἐν τάξει τὰς περὶ ψυχῆς πάσας δόξας. Εἰσὶ δή τινες, οἳ πᾶσαν τὴν τοιαύτην οὐσίαν ὁμοιομερῆ καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν καὶ μίαν ἀποφαίνονται, ὡς καὶ ἐν ὁτῳοῦν αὐτῆς μέρει εἶναι τὰ ὅλα· οἵτινες καὶ ἐν τῇ μεριστῇ ψυχῇ τὸν νοητὸν κόσμον καὶ θεοὺς καὶ δαίμονας καὶ τἀγαθὸν καὶ πάντα τὰ πρεσβύτερα γένη αὐτῆς ἐνιδρύουσι καὶ ἐν πᾶσιν ὡσαύτως πάντα εἶναι ἀποφαίνονται, οἰκείως μέντοι κατὰ τὴν αὐτῶν οὐσίαν ἐν ἑκάστοις.
32.11
Καὶ ταύτης τῆς δόξης ἀναμφισβητήτως μέν ἐστι Νουμήνιος, οὐ πάντῃ δὲ ὁμολογουμένως Πλωτῖνος, ἀστάτως δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ φέρεται Ἀμέλιος· Πορφύριος δὲ ἐνδοιάζει περὶ αὐτήν, πῇ μὲν διατεταμένως αὐτῆς ἀφιστάμενος, πῇ δὲ συνακολουθῶν αὐτῇ, ὡς παραδοθείσῃ ἄνωθεν. Κατὰ δὴ ταύτην νοῦ καὶ θεῶν καὶ τῶν κρειττόνων γενῶν οὐδὲν ἡ ψυχὴ διενήνοχε κατά γε τὴν ὅλην οὐσίαν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 115532.10 · All incorporeal reality in every part
Come, then, let us ascend to substance that is incorporeal in itself, distinguishing in order all the opinions about soul in this class too. Some declare that all such substance is homogeneous, identical, and one, so that the whole is present in any part of it. They establish within the divisible soul the intelligible cosmos, gods, divine spirits, the Good, and all the kinds prior to soul. They declare that all things are alike present in all, yet in each in a manner appropriate to its own substance.1423
32.11 · Differences among the named Platonists
Numenius unquestionably holds this opinion; Plotinus does so without complete consistency, while Amelius moves unsteadily within it. Porphyry hesitates about it, at some points firmly withdrawing from it, at others following it as a teaching handed down from earlier authorities. On this view, soul differs in no respect from intellect, gods, and the higher kinds, at least as regards its substance as a whole.1424
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