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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 2 · II.2.6.3
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p. 54Ἰαμβλίχου πρὸς Σώπατρον · συνέχεια
Εἴτε οὖν ἐπιτηδευτέον, εἴτε μή, διαλεκτικὴν ἀσκεῖν ⟨ἄξιον⟩· καὶ γὰρ ἔστιν ἄτοπον, εἰ τὰ μὲν ἅπαντα λόγῳ κρίνομεν, αὐτὴν ⟨δὲ⟩ ἀφήσομεν τὴν ἀκριβεστάτην τοῦ λόγου θεωρίαν· καὶ λόγῳ προέχοντες τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων καὶ τοῦτο ἐξαίρετον ἀγαθὸν κεκτημένοι τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως, εἰκῇ καὶ ὡς ἔτυχε τὰ κατ’ αὐτὸν ἐνεργήσομεν· καὶ τὴν συμμεμιγμένην διάσκεψιν τοῦ λόγου πρὸς τὰ ὅλα πράγματα ἀγαπήσομεν, αὐτὴν δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γνῶσιν τοῦ λόγου, καθ’ ἣν ἀφείμενος τῶν ἄλλων τὴν περὶ αὑτοῦ ἐπιστήμην κατεστήσατο σεμνοτάτην οὖσαν καὶ τιμιωτάτην, ὡς μαρτυρεῖ καὶ τὸ ἐν Πυθοῖ γράμμα, ἀποδοκιμάσομεν ὡς ἀπόβλητον.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 2
p. 55Iamblichus to Sopater · 3
Whether, then, it ought to be pursued or not, practicing dialectic is ⟨worthwhile⟩. For it is absurd to judge everything by reason ⟨yet⟩ abandon the most exact study of reason itself; to surpass the other animals through reason, possessing this distinctive good of human nature, yet exercise it casually and at random; and to be content with reason’s investigation when it is intermingled with things in general, yet reject as worthless reason’s knowledge of itself. In that knowledge, reason turns away from other things and establishes the science of itself as supremely august and precious—as the inscription at Pytho also bears witness.67
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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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