Φύσις
nature
Translated by Marcelo Boeri8 Dec 2003Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
(1) The intelligent [nature], such as exists in the Angels whose very thoughts associate with each other.
(2) The rational [nature], such as [exists] in human beings, that makes public to external [people] the invisible motions of the soul through names and words.
(3) The perceptual [nature] is the one observed in irrational beings: for they have acquired the perceptual [power], in addition to the nutritive, the growing, and the generative power.
(4) The vegetative [nature] is the one [existing] in plants: for [plants] also move themselves according to the nutritive, the growing, and the generative power.
(5) However, [there is an] inanimate [nature], as in the case of stones, insofar as they also are moved according to quality and to place: according to quality when they are heated and made cold; according to place by transposition from a place to [another] place, [being] moved by external forces.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φύσις· φύσις ἐστὶν ἡ ἁπλῶς τῶν ὄντων κίνησις, πεντάτροπος δὲ αὕτη· ἡ νοερά, ὡς ἐπὶ Ἀγγέλων, ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν νοημάτων ἀλλή- λοις συγγινομένων. λογική, ὡς ἐπὶ ἀνθρώπων δι' ὀνομάτων καὶ ῥημάτων τὰ ἀφανῆ τῆς ψυχῆς κινήματα πρὸς τοὺς ἐκτὸς δημοσιεύουσα· αἰσθητικὴ δὲ ἡ ἐν τοῖς ἀλόγοις θεωρουμένη· πρὸς γὰρ τῇ θρεπτικῇ καὶ αὐξητικῇ καὶ γεννητικῇ δυνάμει καὶ τὴν αἰσθητικὴν κέκτηται· φυτικὴ δὲ ἡ ἐν τοῖς φυτοῖς· κινοῦνται γὰρ καὶ αὐτὰ κατὰ τὴν θρεπτικὴν καὶ αὐξητικὴν καὶ γεννητικὴν δύναμιν· ἄψυχος δέ, ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν λίθων, καθότι καὶ αὐτοὶ κινοῦνται κατὰ τὸ ποιὸν καὶ κατὰ τὸ ποῦ· καὶ κατὰ τὸ ποιὸν μέν, κατὰ τὸ θερμαίνεσθαι καὶ ψύχεσθαι, κατὰ τὸ ποῦ δέ, κατὰ τὴν ἐκ τόπου εἰς τόπον ἑτεροκίνητον μετάθεσιν.
Betacode
*fu/sis: fu/sis e)sti\n h( a(plw=s tw=n o)/ntwn ki/nhsis, penta/tropos de\ au(/th: h( noera/, w(s e)pi\ *)agge/lwn, e)c au)tw=n tw=n nohma/twn a)llh/- lois sugginome/nwn. logikh/, w(s e)pi\ a)nqrw/pwn di' o)noma/twn kai\ r(hma/twn ta\ a)fanh= th=s yuxh=s kinh/mata pro\s tou\s e)kto\s dhmosieu/ousa: ai)sqhtikh\ de\ h( e)n toi=s a)lo/gois qewroume/nh: pro\s ga\r th=| qreptikh=| kai\ au)chtikh=| kai\ gennhtikh=| duna/mei kai\ th\n ai)sqhtikh\n ke/kthtai: futikh\ de\ h( e)n toi=s futoi=s: kinou=ntai ga\r kai\ au)ta\ kata\ th\n qreptikh\n kai\ au)chtikh\n kai\ gennhtikh\n du/namin: a)/yuxos de/, w(s e)pi\ tw=n li/qwn, kaqo/ti kai\ au)toi\ kinou=ntai kata\ to\ poio\n kai\ kata\ to\ pou=: kai\ kata\ to\ poio\n me/n, kata\ to\ qermai/nesqai kai\ yu/xesqai, kata\ to\ pou= de/, kata\ th\n e)k to/pou ei)s to/pon e(teroki/nhton meta/qesin.
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Revision history6 revisions · last 9 Apr 2023
- another keyword, source note — Catharine Roth
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- another tweak — Catharine Roth
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added x-refs; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri