Passage

Plotinus, Enneads 6.8 (DIORISIS sentence 6248)

grc plotinus enneads

Τὴν δὴ ἀρχὴν παντὸς λόγου τε καὶ τάξεως καὶ ὅρου πῶς ἄν τις τὴν τούτου ὑπόστασιν ἀναθείη τύχηι Καὶ μὴν πολλῶν μὲν ἡ τύχη κυρία, νοῦ δὲ καὶ λόγου καὶ τάξεως εἰς τὸ γεννᾶν ταῦτα οὐ κυρία ὅπου καὶ ἐναντίον γε δοκεῖ λόγωι εἶναι τύχη, πῶς ἂν γεννήτειρα αὐτοῦ γένοιτο Εἰ οὖν μὴ γεννᾶι νοῦν τύχη, οὐδὲ τὸ πρὸ νοῦ οὐδὲ τὸ κρεῖττον νοῦ οὔτε γὰρ εἶχεν ὅθεν γεννήσει, οὔτε ἦν τὸ παράπαν αὕτη οὐδʼ ὅλως ἐν τοῖς ἀιδίοις.

Provenance

Stable ID plotinus:enneads:6.8:s6248
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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