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That the Mind Works by Means of the Senses
Patrologia Graeca 44.152-3 * Greek Fonts
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mind then produces the music of reason by means of our instrumental
construction, we are born rational, while, as I think,we should not
have had the gift of reason if we had had to employ our lips to supply
the need of the body-the heavy and toilsome part of the task of
providing food. As things are, however, our hands appropriate this
ministration to themselves, and leave the mouth available for the
service of reason. |
Ὅτι διὰ τῶν αἰσθήσεων ὁ νοῦς ἐνεργεῖΟὕτω τοίνυν τοῦ νοῦ διὰ τῆς ὀργανικῆς ταύτης κατασκευῆς ἐν ἡμῖν μουσουργοῦντος τὸν λόγον͵ λογικοὶ γεγόναμεν͵ οὐκ ἄν͵ ὡς οἶμαι͵ ἔχοντες τὴν τοῦ λόγου χάριν͵ εἰ τὸ βαρύ τε καὶ ἐπίπονον τῆς κατὰ τὴν βρῶσιν λατρείας τοῖς χείλεσι πρὸς τὴν χρείαν τοῦ σώματος ἐπορίζομεν. Νυνὶ δὲ τὴν τοιαύτην λειτουργίαν αἱ χεῖρες εἰς ἑαυτὰς μετενέγκασαι͵ εὔθετον τῇ ὑπηρεσίᾳ τοῦ λόγου τὸ στόμα κατέλιπον.Διπλῆ δὲ περὶ τὸ ὄργανον ἡ ἐνέργεια· ἡ μὲν πρὸς ἐργασίαν ἠχῆς͵ ἡ δὲ πρὸς ὑποδοχὴν τῶν ἔξωθεν νοημάτων͵ Καὶ οὐκ ἐπιμίγνυται πρὸς τὴν ἑτέραν ἡ ἄλλη͵ ἀλλὰ παραμένει τῇ ἐνεργείᾳ͵ ἐφ' ᾗ ἐτάχθη παρὰ τῆς φύσεως͵ οὐκ ἐνοχλοῦσα τῇ γείτονι͵ οὔτε τῆς ἀκοῆς λαλούσης͵ οὔτε τῆς φωνῆς ἀκουούσης. Ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἀεί τι πάντως προΐεται͵ ἡ δὲ ἀκοὴ δεχομένη διηνεκῶς οὐκ ἐμπίμπλαται͵ καθώς φησί που Σολομών· |
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