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Fr. 30 Graeser); cf. Graeser (1973: 15 97-10o), and Barnes (r985). See Moraux (1973), 181-93. xxxu INTRODUCTION supreme principle, or God, is dominant. Later Platonists preserved the Old Academic opposition of monad, or One, and dyad, though they varied in the relationship that they postulated between these two. Antiochus of Ascalon, indeed, seems simply to accept the Stoic pair of an active and a passive principle. 16 It is not even clear that he recognized any transcendent, immaterial principle in the world at all.
XXX INTRODUCTION of a Platonic passage, either for purely stylistic reasons, or in the interest of introducing 'modernized'-perhaps Peripatetic or Stoicterminology. 's habit, well identified and discussed by Whittaker (both in (1989) and in the introduction to his edition, pp. ), of switching a given pair of words used by Plato (verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs all figure in this connection) when utilizing a Platonic passage. This device of 'mirror' quotation must be deliberate, introduced, no doubt, to avoid direct quotation.
Again, accepting the existence of contemplation and action, right reason does not judge in the same way the objects of contemplation as it does those of action, but in the case of contemplation it enquires into truth and non-truth, while in the sphere of action it enquires into what is appropriate and what is alien (to the agent), and what is the nature of the action. For it is by virtue of possessing a natural concept of the fine and the good, by using our reason, and by referring to natural concepts as to definite units of measurement that we judge whether certain given actions are of one nature or another.