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Headword:
Gennêtikê
Adler number: gamma,143
Translated headword: procreative [power]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Better than all [other powers] and more honorable than the natural abilities of the soul [is] the procreative power, second [is] growth,[1] and third nourishment.[2] The job of nourishment is to preserve the form, for we are preserved as far as we are nourished; that of growth is bringing to the measure which is complete and according to nature, reaching which both animals and plants arrive at the most suitable[3] fulfillment of nature, I mean the procreative power. For thus the most perfect aim of nature [is achieved] through the striving for eternity, being restored to mortal creatures by succession. As a result the growth of a substance provides the logic for its procreation, and the nourishment for its growth.[4]
Melissos supposed that that which did not come into being had no origin; but it is false: for many things which are unbegotten have origins.[5]
Greek Original:Gennêtikê. hoti kreittôn pasôn kai timiôtera tôn tês psuchês phusikôn dunameôn hê gennêtikê, deuteron de hê auxêtikê, kai triton hê threptikê. tês men gar threptikês ergon esti to sôizein to eidos: mechri gar tosoutou sôizometha, heôs an trephômetha: tês de auxêtikês to eis teleion kai kata phusin metron agagein, eis ho genomena ta te zôia kai ta phuta epi to skopimôtaton tês phuseôs telos, legô dê tên gennêtikên dunamin, paraginetai. houtô gar tês phuseôs ho telikôtatos skopos dia tên ephesin tês aïdiotêtos, tois thnêtois zôiois episkeuastês têi diadochêi ginomenês. hôste hê men auxêtikê hulês epechei logon pros tên gennêtikên, pros de tên auxêtikên hê threptikê. hoti Melissos ôieto to mê genomenon ouk echein archên: pseudos de esti: polla gar agennêta onta archas echei.
Notes:
(Entry out of alphabetical order.)
cf. generally
gamma 140,
gamma 145.
[1] cf.
alpha 4454.
[2] cf.
theta 474.
[3] cf.
sigma 660.
[4] John
Philoponus,
Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 228.10-19.
[5] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 192.1-3. In Alexander's text, the last clause has
a)ge/nhta with single
nu: "many things which do not come into being have origins."
Aristotle's criticism of this Melissos' argument is also discussed in
Physics, 1.3 (186a10ff.).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 July 2002@01:40:39.
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