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Περὶ αἰσθήσεων καὶ αἰσθητῶν.

οἱ Στωικοὶ ὁρίζονται οὕτως τὴν αἴσθησιν ‘αἴσθησίς ἐστιν ἀντίληψις δι᾽ αἰσθητηρίου ἢ κατάληψις.’ πολλαχῶς δὲ λέγεται ἡ αἴσθησις τε γὰρ ἕξις καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ ἐνέργεια καὶ ἡ φαντασία ἡ καταληπτικὴ δι᾽ αἰσθητηρίου γίνονται, καὶ : αὐτὸ τὸ ἡγεμονικόν, ἀφ᾽ οὗ συνίσταται. πάλιν δ᾽ αἰσθητήρια λέγεται πνεύματα νοερὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡγεμονικοῦ ἐπὶ τὰ ὄργανα τεταμένα.

Ἐπίκουρος: τὸ μόριόν ἐστιν ἡ αἴσθησις ἥτις ἐστὶν ἡ δύναμις, καὶ τὸ ἐπαίσθημα ὅπερ ἐστὶ τὸ ἐνέργημα ὥστε διχῶς παρ᾽ αὐτῷ λέγεσθαι αἴσθησιν μὲν τὴν δύναμιν αἰσθητὸν δὲ τὸ ἐνέργημα.

Πλάτων τὴν αἴσθησιν ἀποφαίνεται ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος κοινωνίαν πρὸς τὰ ἐκτός,: ἡ μὲν γὰρ δύναμις ψυχῆς τὸ δ᾽ ὄργανον σώματος ἄμφω δὲ: διὰ φαντασίας ἀντιληπτικὰ τῶν ἔξωθεν γίνεται. [p. 337]

Λεύκιππος Δημόκριτος τὴν αἴσθησιν καὶ τὴν νόησιν γίνεσθαι, εἰδώλων ἔξωθεν προσιόντων: μηδενὶ γὰρ ἐπιβάλλειν μηδετέραν χωρὶς τοῦ προσπίπτοντος εἰδώλου.

Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1893. 5.

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