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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.37.1–I.49.37.2
Ancient Greek
p. 118237.1 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ἐν ταὐτῷ· περὶ τῶν ἔργων τῆς ψυχῆς.
Πότερον οὖν πασῶν τῶν ψυχῶν τὰ αὐτὰ ἔργα ἀποτελεῖται, ἢ τὰ μὲν τῶν ὅλων τελεώτερα, τὰ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ὡς ἕκασται διειλήχασι τὴν προσήκουσαν ἑαυταῖς τάξιν; Ὡς μὲν οἱ Στωικοὶ λέγουσιν, εἷς τέ ἐστιν ὁ λόγος καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ πάντως διανόησις καὶ τὰ κατορθώματα ἴσα καὶ αἱ αὐταὶ ἀρεταὶ τῶν τε μεριστῶν καὶ τῶν ὅλων·
37.2
καί που Πλωτῖνος καὶ Ἀμέλιος ἐπὶ ταύτης εἰσὶ τῆς δόξης (ἐνίοτε γὰρ ⟨οὐχ⟩ ὡς ἄλλην τὴν μεριστὴν ψυχὴν παρὰ τὴν ὅλην, μίαν δὲ αὐτὴν πρὸς ἐκείνην εἶναι ἀφορίζονται)· ὡς δ᾽ ἂν εἴποι Πορφύριος, πάντῃ κεχώρισται τὰ τῆς ὅλης ψυχῆς παρὰ τὴν μεριστὴν ἐνεργήματα.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 118337.1 · Soul’s works: equality or difference
In the same work: on the works of soul.
Are the same works accomplished by all souls, or are those of universal souls more complete, while those of other souls correspond to the rank each has received as its own? According to the Stoics, reason is one, thought is entirely the same, right actions are equal, and the virtues are the same in particular and universal souls alike;1455
37.2 · Divergent Platonic accounts
and Plotinus and Amelius too seem to hold this opinion. At times they determine that the particular soul is ⟨not⟩ different from the universal soul, but one with it. As Porphyry would put it, however, the operations of the universal soul are entirely distinct from those of the particular soul.1456
Socrates
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