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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3i.3
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p. 164Περὶ τέλους · Δημόκριτος καὶ Πλάτων · συνέχεια
Ἐν μὲν τοίνυν τῷ τὴν ἡδονὴν καὶ τὴν λύπην ὀνομάσαι τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν παθῶν συνίστησι τῆς εὐδαιμονίας ἀρχήν· ἐν δὲ τῷ τὸν ἀρυόμενον ὅθεν τε δεῖ καὶ ὁπῇ καὶ ὅπως εὐδαιμονεῖν, τὸ τῷ λογιστικῷ διοριστικὸν εἴρηκε τῆς εὐδαιμονίας. Κατὰ τοῦτο μὲν οὖν ἀλλήλοις συμφέρονται· καθὰ δὲ Πλάτων ἐν μὲν τῇ εὐλογιστίᾳ τίθεται τὸ προηγούμενον ἀγαθὸν καὶ δι’ αὑτὸ αἱρετόν, ἐν δὲ τῇ ἡδονῇ τὸ ἐπιγεννηματικόν, ὅπερ οἴεται καὐτὸς εἶναι χαράν τε καὶ ἀταραξίαν συνωνύμως, ἐξ ἐπακολουθήματος ⟨ἀλλήλοις διαφέρονται⟩.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 165On the End · Democritus and Plato 3
By naming pleasure and pain, then, he establishes the beginning of happiness in the affections. By saying that the person who draws from the proper source, in the proper direction and manner, is happy, he has stated that the rational part sets happiness’s limits.183 On this point, therefore, they agree with each other. But insofar as Plato places the primary good, desirable for its own sake, in sound reasoning, and the derivative good in pleasure, which he too considers synonymous with joy and freedom from disturbance, ⟨they differ from each other⟩ as a consequence.184
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The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.
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Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.
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