{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2970.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2970.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2970.tlg001.local001","title":"Περὶ ψυχῆς (fragmentum)","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Severus Philosophus","authorityName":"SEVERUS Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2970-severus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2970-severus/","editors":["Friedrich Wilhelm August Mullach"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum","edition":null,"publisher":"Firmin-Didot","place":"Paris","date":"1881","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital editor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/fragmentaphiloso03mulluoft/page/204/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Severus Philosophus. Περὶ ψυχῆς (fragmentum). ed. Friedrich Wilhelm August Mullach. Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1881. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2970.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Περὶ δὲ τῆς κατὰ Πλάτωνα ψυχῆς, ἥν φησιν ἐξ ἀπαθοῦς καὶ παθητῆς οὐσίας συστῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, ὡς ἐκ λευκοῦ καὶ μέλανος τῶν μέσων τι χρωμάτων, ἐκεῖνα ἔχομεν εἰπεῖν· ὅτι ἀνάγκη, χρόνῳ διαστάσεως αὐτῶν γιγνομένης, ἀφανισθῆναι αὐτήν, ὡς τὴν τοῦ μέσου χρώματος σύστασιν, ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα ἑκάστου ἐξ ὧν συνέστη, ἐν χρόνῳ φύσει χωριζομένου. Εἰ δὲ τοῦτο, φθαρτὴν ἀποφανοῦμεν, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀθάνατον τὴν ψυχήν. Εἰ γὰρ τοῦτο ὁμολογεῖται, μηδὲν τῶν ἐν τῇ φύσει ὄντων ἄνευ τοῦ ἐναντίου εἶναι, τά τε ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἐκ τῆς τῶν ἐναντίων φύσεως ὑπὸ θεοῦ κεκοσμῆσθαι, φιλίαν αὐτοῖς καὶ κοινωνίαν ἐμποιήσαντος αὐτοῦ, οἷον τῷ ξηρῷ πρὸς τὸ ὑγρόν, καὶ τῷ θερμῷ πρὸς τὸ ψυχρόν, τῷ τε βαρεῖ πρὸς τὸ κοῦφον, λευκῷ τε πρὸς τὸ μέλαν, γλυκεῖ τε πρὸς τὸ πικρόν, σκληρῷ τε πρὸς τὸ μαλακόν, τῇ τε ἀπαθεῖ οὐσίᾳ πρὸς τὴν παθητήν, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς τοιούτοις μίαν ἄλλην πάντων κοινωνίαν· τὰ δὲ κραθέντα καὶ μιχθέντα χωρισμὸν τὸν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων ἐν…","divisions":[{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2970.tlg001.local001/#tlg2970-tlg001-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2970.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2970.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2970/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}