Διαθέσεις
dispositions
Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝26 Dec 2001Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
Not only [are] the sciences and the arts [dispositions], but also the virtues.1 Both the base and the good belong to an art. For of the arts some are base, but some good. Aristotle rather commonly uses the name "science" instead of "art."2 The base and the good would belong to a disposition, it being a genre of an art.3
'Dispositions'4 is the name for those things which are unstable and quickly changed, as heat and cold and sickness and health. For a person is disposed according to it in some way, but quickly changes from hot to cold and from being healthy to being ill, unless some (disposition), having become inveterate through a length of time, is incurable or hard to deal with, which one would perhaps now call a "state."5 And a "state" differs from a "disposition", for a state is stable, a disposition, instable.6
'Dispositions'4 is the name for those things which are unstable and quickly changed, as heat and cold and sickness and health. For a person is disposed according to it in some way, but quickly changes from hot to cold and from being healthy to being ill, unless some (disposition), having become inveterate through a length of time, is incurable or hard to deal with, which one would perhaps now call a "state."5 And a "state" differs from a "disposition", for a state is stable, a disposition, instable.6