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One can easily see that the faculty which Kant designates
by the word Empfindlichkeit, sense perception, belongs to
the physical part of man; and that which he expresses by
the word Ver stand, the understanding, resides in his animistic
part; but one cannot see at all that what he names Vernunft,
and which he continually confounds with reason, may be able
in any manner to dominate in his intellectual part.

Platon i Alciabiades: vikten av att förstå sig själv, i termer av moral. Dubbelkolla.

That is to say, thou shouldst consider what will be the results of such or such action and think that these results, dependent upon thy will (while the action remains in suspense and free, while they are yet to be born), will become the domain of Necessity the very instant when the action will be executed, and increasing in the past, once they shall have had birth, will cooperate in forming the plan of a new future.

The man who recognizes his dignity, says Hierocles,
is incapable of being prejudiced or seduced by anything. 0

Man develops, perfects_, or depraves, but he creates
nothing. The scientific golden mean commended by Pythagoras, consists therefore, in seizing the principles of the
sciences where they are and developing them freely without
being constrained or driven by any false ideas. As to that
which cot1cerns morals, it is forcibly enough expressed by
all that has preceded.

The philosopher never thought of this evil of which he had
been the cause wi"thout violent grief; he meditated deeply,
and made from this incident reflections which served him the
remainder of his life. He realized, as he energetically
expressed it, that one must not stir the fire with the sword.

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Thus, following this doctrine, liberty
rules in the future, necessity in the past, and Providence
over the present. Nothing that exists happens by chance
but by the union of the fundamental and providential law
with the human will which follows or transgresses it, by
operating upon necessity.b The harmony of the Will and
Providence constitutes Good; Evil is born of their opposition.

draw alike their origin: a most profound idea that the
Stoics had adopted.

re seneca: he necessity of Destiny, upon the things
done, or upon the past: and the one nourished the other
unceasingly, by working upon the materials which they reciprocally furnished each other; for according to this admirable
philosopher, it is of the past that the future is born, of the
future that the past is formed, and of the union of both that
is engendered the always existing present, from which they

Hippias 2.