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Headword: *futikai/
Adler number: phi,878
Translated headword: vegetative
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[There are] three vegetative faculties of the soul: the faculty of nourishing, of growth, and of begetting. And they are called "vegetative" because they are the only ones that can be seen in the plants. Now we are not only human beings and animals but also ensouled beings. And insofar as we are human beings we have rational faculties, but insofar as we are animals we have irrational faculties, and insofar as we are ensouled beings we have vegetative faculties. For we call the plants ensouled beings as well. Indeed, it is characteristic of ensouled beings to take nourishment, to grow, and to beget things similar to themselves. And these same things are said both to live and to die, and life and death occur because of the presence and the absence of the soul [respectively]. Now those living things that have superior faculties of life also have inferior faculties by necessity; but the reverse is not the case. For it is not possible to have rational faculties if one has not previously had inferior faculties. Indeed, among the senses, it is not possible that the one who does not participate in the lower one participates in the higher one. Certainly those living things that take part in the sense of sight also take part in the sense of hearing and in the rest of senses, and those living things that participate in the sense of hearing also take part in the sense of smell, taste, and touch. Nevertheless, not all those living things that participate in the sense of smell, taste, and touch participate in all ways in the sense of sight (for example, that is the case of the blind-rat)[1]. And not all those living things that participate in the sense of touch participate in the other senses, either: for instance, the sponges participate in touch but they do not take part in any other senses. Therefore, the one who does not participate in an inferior faculty cannot take part in a superior faculty. And this does not happen because the superior faculties need the inferior ones in order to exist; on the contrary, the body is not able to participate in the superior faculties if it does not previously partake of the inferior ones.
Greek Original:
*futikai/: futikai\ duna/meis trei=s th=s yuxh=s, qreptikh/, au)chtikh/, gennhtikh/. futikai\ de\ kalou=ntai, dio/ti au(=tai mo/nai e)n toi=s futoi=s o(rw=ntai. e)sme\n ou)=n kai\ a)/nqrwpoi kai\ zw=|a kai\ e)/myuxa. kai\ w(s me\n a)/nqrwpoi ta\s logika\s duna/meis e)/xomen, w(s de\ zw=|a ta\s a)lo/gous, w(s de\ e)/myuxa ta\s futika/s. e)/myuxa ga\r le/gomen kai\ ta\ futa/: e)myu/xwn ga\r to\ tre/fesqai kai\ au)/cesqai kai\ genna=n o(/moia e(autoi=s. le/gontai de\ au)ta\ kai\ zh=n kai\ teqna/nai: h( de\ zwh\ kai\ o( qa/natos parousi/a| kai\ a)pousi/a| gi/netai yuxh=s. o(/sa me\n ou)=n e)/xousi ta\s krei/ttous zwa/s, e)c a)na/gkhs kai\ ta\s katadeeste/ras e)/xousin: ou)ke/ti de\ kai\ a)na/palin. ou) ga\r dunato\n ta\s logika\s e)/xein duna/meis, mh\ pro/teron e)sxhko/tas ta\s katadeeste/ras. a)me/lei kai\ tw=n ai)sqh/sewn ou)k e)/sti metasxei=n th=s krei/ttonos to\n mh\ metasxo/nta th=s xei/ronos. o(/sa gou=n mete/xei o)/yews, tau=ta kai\ a)koh=s kai\ tw=n loipw=n, kai\ o(/sa a)koh=s, tau=ta kai\ o)sfrh/sews kai\ geu/sews kai\ a(fh=s. ou)x o(/sa de\ o)sfrh/sews kai\ geu/sews kai\ a(fh=s, pa/ntws kai\ o)/yews: w(/sper o( a)spa/lac: ou)d' o(/sa a)fh=s, tau=ta kai\ tw=n a)/llwn: oi(=on oi( spo/ggoi a(fh=s mete/xousin, ou)demia=s de\ tw=n ai)sqh/sewn a)/llhs. w(/ste ou)k e)/sti metasxei=n th=s krei/ttonos to\n mh\ th=s e)la/ttonos metasxo/nta. tou=to de\ ou)x o(/ti de/ontai tw=n xeiro/nwn ai( krei/ttous, i(/na u(postw=sin: a)lla\ tou)nanti/on to\ sw=ma ou) du/natai metasxei=n tw=n kreitto/nwn, mh\ pro/teron metalabo\n tw=n katadeeste/rwn.
Notes:
John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 6.26-7.9 Hayduck.
[1] alpha 4198.
Keywords: botany; definition; food; gender and sexuality; philosophy; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 19 September 2000@03:49:42.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Modified translation, added keywords) on 20 September 2000@01:06:45.
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 16 June 2002@07:51:15.
David Whitehead (x-ref; more keywords; cosmetics) on 29 April 2011@07:24:04.
David Whitehead on 18 December 2013@08:48:03.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 9 April 2023@19:24:08.
Catharine Roth (a little more tweaking) on 12 April 2023@23:47:23.

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