Authors/Aristotle/priora/Liber 1/C40
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Chapter 40
| Greek | Latin | English |
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| 40 | ||
| 49b10 Ἐπεὶ δ᾽ οὐ ταὐτόν ἐστι τὸ εἶναι τὴν ἡδονὴν ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ εἶναι τὴν ἡδονὴν τὸ ἀγαθόν, οὐχ ὁμοίως θετέον τοὺς ὅρους, ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μέν ἐστιν ὁ συλλογισμὸς ὅτι ἡ ἡδονὴ τἀγαθόν, τἀγαθόν, εἰ δ᾽ ὅτι ἀγαθόν, ἀγαθόν. οὕτως κἀπὶ τῶν ἄλλων. | (0680B) Quoniam vero non est idem voluptatem esse bonum, et esse voluptatem quod bonum, non similiter ponendum terminos; sed si est syllogismus quoniam voluptas quod bonum, terminum ponendum quod bonum; si autem quoniam bonum, bonum, similiter autem et in aliis. | Since the expressions ‘pleasure is good’ and ‘pleasure is the good’ are not identical, we must not set out the terms in the same way; but if the syllogism is to prove that pleasure is the good, the term must be ‘the good’, but if the object is to prove that pleasure is good, the term will be ‘good’. Similarly in all other cases. |