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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.34.2–I.49.34.3
Ancient Greek
p. 117034.2
Οἱ δὲ περὶ Πλάτωνα καὶ Ἀρχύτας καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ Πυθαγόρειοι τὴν ψυχὴν τριμερῆ ἀποφαίνονται, διαιροῦντες εἰς λογισμὸν καὶ θυμὸν καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν· ταῦτα γὰρ εἶναι χρήσιμα πρὸς τὴν τῶν ἀρετῶν σύστασιν.
34.3
Δυνάμεις δὲ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀναλογίζονται φύσιν καὶ φαντασίαν καὶ αἴσθησιν καὶ δόξαν καὶ κινητικὴν σωμάτων διάνοιαν καὶ ὄρεξιν καλῶν κἀγαθῶν καὶ νοήσεις. Ἀριστοτέλης δὲ εἰς πέντε αὐτὰς διαιρεῖ, φύσιν, αἴσθησιν, κίνησιν κατὰ τόπον, ὄρεξιν, διάνοιαν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 117134.2 · The threefold division and virtue
Plato’s followers, Archytas, and the other Pythagoreans declare soul to have three parts, dividing it into reasoning, spirit, and desire; for these, they say, are useful for establishing the virtues.1441
34.3 · Enumerations of powers
As powers of soul they reckon nature, presentation, perception, opinion, thought that moves bodies, desire for things beautiful and good, and acts of understanding. Aristotle divides them into five: nature, perception, movement from place to place, desire, and thought.1442
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