Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, 29

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ΔΙΑΔΟΥΜ.

εἰς τοιαῦτα μέντοι πράγματα τὸν ἠθικὸν λόγον ἐκβάλλοντες

ἑλικτὰ κοὐδὲν ὑγιὲς ἀλλὰ πᾶν πέριξ

εὐτελίζουσι καὶ διασύρουσιν, ὡς δὴ μόνοι τὴν φύσιν 5 1073d καὶ συνήθειαν ὀρθοῦντες ᾗ χρὴ καὶ καθιστάντες τὸν λόγον, ὃς ἅμʼ ἀποστρέφει καὶ ἐπάγει ταῖς ἐφέσεσι καὶ διώξεσι καὶ ὁρμαῖς πρὸς τὸ οἰκεῖον ἕκαστον. ἡ δὲ συνήθεια τῆς διαλεκτικῆς διέραμα γενομένη χρηστὸν μὲν οὐδὲν οὐδʼ ὑγιὲς ἀπολέλαυκεν, 10 ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἀκοὴ νοσώδης ὑπὸ κενῶν ἤχων δυσηκοΐας καὶ ἀσαφείας ἐμπέπλησται περὶ ἧς αὖθις ἑτέραν ἀρχὴν λαβόντες, εἰ βούλει, διαλεξόμεθα. νυνὶ δὲ τὸν φυσικὸν αὐτῶν λόγον, οὐχ ἧττον τοῦ περὶ τελῶν διαταράττοντα τὰς κοινὰς προλήψεις, ἐν 15 τοῖς κυριωτάτοις καὶ πρώτοις ἐπιδράμωμεν.

De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos. Plutarch. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Leipzig. 1895.

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Περὶ τῶν κοινῶν ἐννοιῶν πρὸς τοὺς Στωικοὺς (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. VI. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1895.)

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Of common conceptions, against the Stoics. Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. IV. Goodwin, William W., editor; White, Samuel, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 29 focus

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DIADUMENUS.

Thus casting moral philosophy into these matters, in which all is

A mazy whirl, with nothing sound, and all perplexed,¹

they contemn and deride all about them, as if themselves were the only men who regulated nature and custom as it ought to be, and who at the same time adapted reason to each man’s peculiar state by means of aversions, desires, appetites, pursuits, and impulses. But custom has received no good from their logic, but, like the ear diseased by vain sounds, is filled with difficulty and obscurity,—of which, if you think good, we will elsewhere begin a new discourse. But now we will run through the chief and principal heads of their natural philosophy, which no less confounds the common conceptions than that other concerning ends.

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ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs

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