Εὐεξία
vigor
Translated by Marcelo Boeri24 Jan 2004Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] strength of the body.1
Vigor is extended health.2
Health's acme [is] vigor.3
"One would discover in a short time4 that [the thesis that] 'the greater evil is contrary to the greater good' is not thus, as it appears in [the case] of vigor and health. For what is contrary to the greater good –- and this is debility -– seems to be a lesser evil than disease, which is contrary to health, the lesser good, because all sick people are weak, but not all weak people are already also sick. And the cause of this is that vigor also includes health in itself; for health is vigor.5 This is why [vigor], which encompasses in itself health also, is a greater good than [health].6 For added to it is the fact that [vigor] is itself among those things which are preferable in themselves. By contrast, debility no longer encompasses disease in itself, but it exists only where vigor of health was [previously] present.7 But disease on the other hand encompasses debility, for disease arises on top of debility, just as vigor also [arises] on top of health."
Vigor is extended health.2
Health's acme [is] vigor.3
"One would discover in a short time4 that [the thesis that] 'the greater evil is contrary to the greater good' is not thus, as it appears in [the case] of vigor and health. For what is contrary to the greater good –- and this is debility -– seems to be a lesser evil than disease, which is contrary to health, the lesser good, because all sick people are weak, but not all weak people are already also sick. And the cause of this is that vigor also includes health in itself; for health is vigor.5 This is why [vigor], which encompasses in itself health also, is a greater good than [health].6 For added to it is the fact that [vigor] is itself among those things which are preferable in themselves. By contrast, debility no longer encompasses disease in itself, but it exists only where vigor of health was [previously] present.7 But disease on the other hand encompasses debility, for disease arises on top of debility, just as vigor also [arises] on top of health."