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De partibus animae And the parts of the soul are 3. The appetitive, the spirited, the rational. And the most sacred mind is enthroned by four virtues: prudence, courage, justice, temperance. 95.232 The law is threefold. Natural, written, and the spiritual one in grace. The body is fourfold, constituted like a kind of world; and in it the soul is threefold, prefiguring the Holy Trinity, and vivifying this by its energies. And we say the soul is threefold, having the rational, the spirited, and the appetitive; so that through the rational it may reason; and through the spirited it may be angry at demons, acting courageously against them; and through the appetitive it may love God. And this appetitive part is divided into three: into the divine, the natural, and the middle carnal part, which is the diabolical. Divine is to love God; natural is to love things according to nature; carnal is to love things contrary to nature; for instance, marriage is according to nature; but contrary to nature is fornication, and such things. I found in another. The powers of the soul are five: intellect, thought, opinion, imagination, sensation. Intellect is the intellectual sense of the soul, by which it is able to see things directly, and without inquiry. Thought is a power of the soul, by which it is able to know things through reasoning; whence it is also called thought (dianoia), from opening up (dianoigein) a certain path. Opinion is a power of the soul, by which it knows things without reason. Imagination is a power of the irrational soul. Sensation is a power of the soul, perceptive of material things.

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De partibus animae Τῆς δὲ ψυχῆς μέρη γʹ. Ἐπιθυμητικὸν, θυμικὸν, λογιστικόν. Ἀρεταῖς δὲ τέσσαρσι τεθρόνισται ὁ ἱερώτατος νοῦς· φρονήσεως, ἀνδρείας, δικαιοσύνης, σωφροσύνης. 95.232 Τρισσὸς ὁ νόμος. Φυσικὸς, γραπτὸς, καὶ ὁ ἐν χάριτι πνευματικός. Τετραμερές ἐστι τὸ σῶμα, ὥσπερ τις κόσμος συνιστάμενον· τριμερὴς δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ἡ ψυχὴ, προτυποῦσα τὴν ἁγίαν Τριάδα, καὶ τοῦτο ταῖς ἐνεργείαις ζωοποιοῦσα. Τριμερῆ δὲ λέγομεν τὴν ψυχὴν, ἔχουσαν λογικὸν, θυμικὸν, καὶ ἐπιθυμητικόν· ἵνα διὰ μὲν τοῦ λογικοῦ λογίζηται· διὰ δὲ τοῦ θυμικοῦ ὀργίζηται τοῖς δαίμοσιν, ἀνδριζομένη κατ' αὐτῶν· διὰ δὲ τοῦ ἐπιθυμητικοῦ ἀγαπᾷ τὸν Θεόν. Τοῦτο δὲ τὸ ἐπιθυμητικὸν διαιρεῖται εἰς τρία· εἰς θεϊκὸν, φυσικὸν, καὶ μέσον τὸ σαρκικὸν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ τὸ διαβολικόν. Θεϊκὸν μὲν, τὸ ἀγαπᾷν τὸν Θεόν· φυσικὸν δὲ, τὸ ἀγαπᾷν τὰ κατὰ φύσιν· σαρκικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀγαπᾷν τὰ παρὰ φύσιν· οἷον, κατὰ φύσιν μὲν ὁ γάμος· παρὰ φύσιν δὲ, ἡ πορνεία, καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα. Ἐν ἄλλῳ εὗρον. Τῆς ψυχῆς εἰσι δυνάμεις πέντε· νοῦς, διάνοια, δόξα, φαντασία, αἴσθησις. Νοῦς ἐστι νοερὰ αἴσθησις τῆς ψυχῆς, καθ' ἣν δύναται αὐτοπτικῶς ὁρᾷν τὰ πράγματα, καὶ δίχα ζητήσεων. ∆ιάνοιά ἐστι δύναμις τῆς ψυχῆς, καθ' ἣν μετὰ συλλογισμοῦ δύναται γινώσκειν τὰ πράγματα· διὸ καὶ λέγεται διάνοια, παρὰ τὸ ὁδόν τινα διανοίγειν. ∆όξα ἐστὶ δύναμις τῆς ψυχῆς, καθ' ἣν ἄνευ αἰτίας γινώσκει τὸ πράγματα. Φαντασία δύναμίς ἐστι τῆς ἀλόγου ψυχῆς. Αἴσθησίς ἐστι δύναμις τῆς ψυχῆς, ἀντιληπτικὴ τῶν ὑλῶν.