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Porphyry · Thomas Taylor
Translated by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, 1920 Object of the Book We propose to describe the faculties of the soul, and to set forth the various opinions of the subject held by both ancient and modern thinkers. Difference between Sensation and Intelligence Aristo [there were two philosophers by this name, one a Stoic, the other an Aristotelian] attributes to the soul a perceptive faculty, which he divides into two parts. According to him, the first, called sensibility, the principle and origin of sensations, is usually kept active by one of the sense-organs. The other, which subsists by itself, and without; organs, does not bear any special name in beings devoid of reason, in whom reason does not manifest, or ac least manifests only in a feeble or obscure manner; however, it is called intelligence in beings endowed with reason, among whom done it manifests clearly. Aristo holds that …
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