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Plotinus, Enneads 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 489)

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Νοῦς μὲν γὰρ καὶ ψυχὴ εἴδη ὄντα εἰδῶν καὶ τὴν γνῶσιν ἂν ποιοῖντο, καὶ πρὸς αὐτὰ ἂν ἔχοιεν τὴν ὄρεξιν εἶδος δὲ τὸ κακὸν πῶς ἄν τις φαντάζοιτο ἐν ἀπουσίαι παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ ἰνδαλλόμενον Ἀλλʼ εἰ, ὅτι τῶν ἐναντίων ἡ αὐτὴ γένοιτʼ ἂν ἐπιστήμη καὶ τῶι ἀγαθῶι ἐναντίον τὸ κακόν, ἥπερ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ, καὶ τοῦ κακοῦ ἔσται, ἀναγκαῖον περὶ ἀγαθοῦ διιδεῖν τοῖς μέλλουσι τὰ κακὰ γνώσεσθαι, ἐπείπερ προηγούμενα τὰ ἀμείνω τῶν χειρόνων καὶ εἴδη, τὰ δʼ οὔ, ἀλλὰ στέρησις μᾶλλον.

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Stable ID plotinus:enneads:1.8:s489
Source Plotinus Enneads lemmatised primary text — DIORISIS edition (Vatri & McGillivray, Alan Turing Institute), Bibliotheca Augustana base text · cc-by-sa-3.0-us
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