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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.4a.7–II.7.4a.8
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p. 174Περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν · Ἀριστοτέλης
Ἀριστοτέλης τὴν μὲν τριάδα τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὐτὸς ὁμοίως Πλάτωνι κατὰ τοὺς τόπους. Ἔτι τῶν ἀγαθῶν τὰ μέν ἐστι δι’ ἑαυτὰ αἱρετά, τὰ δὲ δι’ ἕτερα. Δι’ ἑαυτὰ μὲν οὖν ἐστιν αἱρετά, ὅσα πρὸς τὴν αἵρεσιν αὑτῶν οὐ δι’ ἄλλο τι κινεῖ ἢ προτρέπεται· τοιαῦτα δ’ ἐστὶν ἥ τ’ εὐδαιμονία, καὶ τὸ γένος τῶν ἀρετῶν, καὶ τὰ σωματικὰ τῶν ⟨πρώτων⟩ κατὰ φύσιν, ὑγίεια, εὐεξία, εὐαισθησία, κάλλος, τάχος, ἀρτιότης, ἰσχύς, τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοις, καὶ τῶν σωματικῶν ἡδονῶν αἱ μηδεμίαν βλάβην ἐπιφέρουσαι. Ταῦτα γὰρ ὁ νοῦν ἔχων ἕλοιτ’ ἂν ⟨δι’⟩ αὐτά, κἂν μηδὲν ἄλλο κεχωρισμένον αὐτῶν περιποιῇ.
Περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν · Ἀριστοτέλης · συνέχεια
Δι’ ἄλλα δ’ ἐστὶν αἱρετὰ τὰ δι’ ἕτερόν τι κεχωρισμένον αὑτῶν προκαλούμενα πρὸς τὴν αἵρεσιν, περίπατος, γυμνασία, μάθησις, ἀνάγνωσις, ἰατρεῖαι, θεραπεῖαι, τροφαί, σκέπαι. Τούτων γὰρ οὐδὲν δι’ αὑτὸ ληπτόν, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἀναφορὰν τὴν ἐφ’ ἃ παρέχεται.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 175On Goods and Evils · Aristotle 1
Aristotle too adopts the threefold division of goods by their fields, similarly to Plato. Further, some goods are choiceworthy for their own sakes, others for the sake of other things. Choiceworthy for their own sakes are those that move or encourage one toward choosing them without some further thing as the reason. Such are happiness, the class of virtues, the bodily ⟨primary⟩ things in accordance with nature, health, good bodily condition, acuity of sense, beauty, speed, soundness, strength, and things like these, together with those bodily pleasures that bring no harm.193 For a person of understanding would choose these ⟨for⟩ themselves, even if they procure nothing else distinct from them.194
On Goods and Evils · Aristotle 2
Choiceworthy for other things are those that invite choice because of something else distinct from themselves: walking, exercise, learning, reading, medical treatments, care, nourishment, and coverings. None of these is to be taken for its own sake, but with reference to the things for which it is provided.195
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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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