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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.41.6–I.49.41.7
Ancient Greek
p. 122441.6
οἱ δὲ ὡς μᾶλλον ἁρμόζουσαν συνεργείᾳ ἀπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων ἰσομοιρούσῃ, ἢ συννεύσει καὶ ῥοπῇ πρὸς τὸ σῶμα ἐπικρατεῖ τοῦ σώματος ἀποδιδόασιν αὐτῆς τὴν ὁμοιότητα· οἱ δὲ οὐδὲν τούτων συγχωροῦσιν, ὡς δὲ μέρος τὴν ψυχήν φασιν εἶναι ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ ζῴῳ, οἱ δὲ ὡς τέχνην ἐμπεφυκέναι τοῖς ὀργάνοις, ὥσπερ εἰ ἦν ἔμψυχος ⟨ὁ⟩ οἴαξ.
41.7
Οἱ δὲ καθαρώτεροι τῶν Πλατωνικῶν, ὥσπερ δὴ οἱ περὶ Πλωτῖνον, ἄρχεσθαι μὲν τῆς κινήσεως τὸ ὀργανικὸν σῶμά φασιν ἀπὸ τούτων τῶν μερῶν, δουλεῦον εἰς τὴν γέννησιν ταῖς χρωμέναις αὐτῷ δυνάμεσιν, αὐτὰς δὲ τὰς δυνάμεις ἀπολύτους εἶναι τῶν μεριστῶν σωμάτων διισχυρίζονται.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 122541.6 · Cooperation, inclination, part, and art
others offer what they consider a more fitting likeness: cooperation in which both contribute equal shares, or a leaning and inclination toward the body that exercises mastery over it. Others accept none of these accounts, but say that soul is a part within the whole living being; still others say that it is an art implanted in its instruments, as if ⟨the⟩ tiller were itself ensouled.1498
41.7 · Powers free of particular bodies
The purer of the Platonists, such as the followers of Plotinus, say that the organic body begins its movement from these parts, serving for generation the powers that use it. But they maintain that the powers themselves are free of particular bodies.1499
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