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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.65.6–I.49.65.8
Ancient Greek
p. 151065.6
Τί ποτε οὖν αὐτῶν ἐστι τὸ τέλος, οὗ ἕνεκα πρώτως [αὐτῶν] ὑφεστήκασι; Κρίσεως μὲν ἄμικτος καθαρότης τῶν ἀγαθῶν, χωριστή τε αὐτῶν τῶν καλῶν τελεότης, ἀφεστηκυῖα τὸ παράπαν ἀπὸ τῶν ἀτελῶν, ὑπερβολή τε ἐξῃρημένη τῶν κρειττόνων αὐτὴ ἑαυτῇ, πρὸς ἣν οὐδὲν δύναται συντάττεσθαι τῶν χειρόνων οὐδέποτε.
65.7
Καὶ ταῦτα τοῖς παλαιοτέροις ἀρέσκει τὰ κεφάλαια αὐτῆς, ἄλλοις δ᾽ ἂν ἴσως εὐταξία καὶ διάστασις τοῦ χείρονος ἀπὸ τοῦ βελτίονος καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα μᾶλλον ἂν δόξειεν εἶναι κυριώτερα τῆς ὠφελείας αὐτῆς αἴτια.
65.8
Δίκης δ᾽ ἂν εἴη τὸ τέλεον ἐν τῷ τὰ βελτίονα τῶν χειρόνων ἐπικρατεῖν καὶ ἐν τῷ τὸ κακὸν κολούειν καὶ ἀνατρέπειν καὶ ἀφανίζειν τὸ παράπαν καὶ ἐν τῷ τὴν ἀνάλογον καὶ κατ᾽ ἀξίαν ἰσότητα τοῖς πᾶσιν ἀπεργάζεσθαι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 151165.6 · The end of judgment
What, then, is their end, for the sake of which they first came to subsist [of them]? The end of judgment is the unmixed purity of good things, the separate perfection of noble things themselves, standing wholly apart from what is imperfect, and the transcendent preeminence of superior things, itself by itself, alongside which nothing inferior can ever be ranked.1813
65.7 · Other views of judgment’s benefit
These are the principal points concerning judgment accepted by the older thinkers. Others, perhaps, would regard good order, the separation of the inferior from the better, and similar things as more decisive causes of its benefit.1814
65.8 · The perfection of punishment
The perfection of punishment would consist in the better prevailing over the worse, in restraining evil, overturning it, and utterly abolishing it, and in establishing for all an equality proportionate to their worth.1815
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