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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.2.7
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p. 128Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια
Τριμεροῦς ὄντος τοῦ κατὰ φιλοσοφίαν λόγου τὸ μέν ἐστιν αὐτοῦ ἠθικόν, τὸ δὲ φυσικόν, τὸ δὲ λογικόν. Τοῦ δ’ ἠθικοῦ τὸ μὲν περὶ τὴν θεωρίαν τῆς καθ’ ἕκαστον ἀξίας, ⟨τὸ δὲ περὶ τὴν ὁρμήν⟩, τὸ δὲ περὶ τὴν πρᾶξιν.
¶ Ταῦτ’ ἐστὶν ἀδρομερῆ τῆς ἠθικῆς εἴδη, πρῶτον μὲν τὸ θεάσασθαι τὴν ἀξίαν τοῦ πράγματος ὅπερ αἱρεῖσθαι μέλλομεν, οὐδὲ γὰρ οἷόν τε γενέσθαι τὴν ὁρμὴν εὔλογον, εἰ μὴ μετὰ τὴν θεωρίαν· ἡ θεωρία δ’ ἐστὶ περίσκεψις τοῦ πράγματος καὶ οἷον ἐπίκρισις κατὰ τὸν περὶ αὐτοῦ λογισμόν· δεύτερον δὲ τὸ τὴν ὁρμὴν τῷ περινοηθέντι καλῶς ἐπιβαλεῖν· τρίτον τὸ τὴν πρᾶξιν αὐτοῖς ἐπισυνάψαι. ¶ Ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ τὰ πρῶτα μέρη τοῦ ἠθικοῦ λόγου θεωρητικόν, ὁρμητικόν, πρακτικόν.
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Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 129Division of the Ethical Field · 7
Philosophical discourse has three parts: ethical, physical, and logical. Of the ethical part, one division concerns the consideration of the value of each thing, ⟨another concerns impulse⟩, and another concerns action.
¶ These are the broad branches of ethics. First, we must consider the value of the thing we are going to choose, since impulse cannot become reasonable unless consideration precedes it. Consideration is an examination of the thing and a kind of judgment based on reasoning about it. Second, we must properly direct impulse toward what has been considered; third, we must attach action to these. ¶ These are the primary parts of ethical discourse: consideration, impulse, and action.
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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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