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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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διπλάσιος
diplasiosDiplasios expresses doubling or a twofold relation.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordDiplasios expresses doubling or a twofold relation.
- In StobaeusThe account of interwoven souls describes their movements as twofold because each shares the other’s affections.
- In this editionUse “twofold” for the psychic movements and “twice as great” for an established quantitative ratio.
- A place to beginTwo intertwined souls have twofold movements and share affections.
- English renderings
- double; twofold; twice as great
Meaning
Diplasios expresses doubling or a twofold relation. Its exact force depends on whether amounts, distances, or coordinated activities are compared.
Use in the book
The account of interwoven souls describes their movements as twofold because each shares the other’s affections. An astronomical report also speaks of a doubled distance, but its syntax is too damaged to secure which distances stand in the ratio. The clear numerical word cannot repair an uncertain comparison by itself.
Places to read
- I.49.25a.3Two intertwined souls have twofold movements and share affections.
- I.26.5.1A doubled astronomical distance occurs in a damaged comparison.
Translation in this edition
Use “twofold” for the psychic movements and “twice as great” for an established quantitative ratio.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 223, 350–351. The eighteenth-fold statement following the damaged distance comparison has no explicit independent subject; neither ratio is reconstructed here.
From the book
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Joseph Joubert · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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double
Double describes paired aspects or directions.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordDouble describes paired aspects or directions.
- In JoubertThe ambitious claim that everything is double begins with soul and body, then nests body within body, thin within thick, and perhaps soul within soul.
- In this editionThe English translation retains double and the final perhaps in the nested account.
- A place to beginPaired and nested relations complicate a simple dual scheme.
- English renderings
- double
Meaning
Double describes paired aspects or directions. The recurrence is useful, but it does not by itself establish that Joubert consistently reduces everything to one pair of principles.
Use in the book
The ambitious claim that everything is double begins with soul and body, then nests body within body, thin within thick, and perhaps soul within soul. The parenthetic reversal—God’s body within soul—already complicates a simple outer-body/inner-soul scheme. The shorter reminder to remember that everything is double supplies no independent definition of the pair. The account of great attention makes a different double relation: looking before oneself coincides with looking within. The shared word invites comparison while its different complements prevent a universal formula.
Places to read
- I, p. 179, entry 12, ¶1Paired and nested relations complicate a simple dual scheme.
- I, p. 213, entry 6, ¶1The general reminder leaves the double’s constituents unnamed.
- II, p. 521, entry 11, ¶1Attention has outward and inward directions at once.
Translation in this edition
The English translation retains double and the final perhaps in the nested account. Rare there means thin or diffuse rather than uncommon. The French noun dualité was not established by this screening, so it is not presented as an attested Joubert headword.
Source note
Beaunier 1938, I, pp. 179, 213; II, pp. 521.