[47] This is a note to explain [Greek: hygieina] and [Greek: euektika],
he gives these three uses of the term [Greek: hygieinon] in the Topics,
I. xiii. 10,
{ [Greek: to men hygieias poiætikon], [Greek: hygieinon legetai]
{ [Greek: to de phylaktikon],
{ [Greek: to de sæmantikon].
Of course the same will apply to [Greek: euektikon].
[48] Healthiness is the formal cause of health.
Medicine is the efficient cause of health.
See Book X. chap. iv. [Greek: hosper oud hæ hygieia kai ho iatros
homoios aitia esti tou ugiainein].
[49] [Greek: phronæsis] is here used in a partial sense to signify the
Intellectual, as distinct from the Moral, element of Practical Wisdom.
[50] This is another case of an observation being thrown in _obiter_,
not relevant to, but suggested by, the matter in hand.
[51] See Book II. chap. iii. and V. xiii.
[52]The article is supplied at [Greek: panourgous], because the
abstract word has just been used expressly in a bad sense. “Up to
anything” is the nearest equivalent to [Greek: panourgos], but too
nearly approaches to a colloquial vulgarism.
[53] See the note on [Greek: Archæ] on page 4, l. 30.
P. 147, l. 14. And for the Minor, of course,
“This particular action is———.”
We may paraphrase [Greek: to telos] by [Greek: ti dei prattein—ti gar
dei prattein hæ mæ, to telos autæs estin] i.e. [Greek: tæs
phronæseos].—(Chap. xi. of this Book.)
[55] “Look asquint on the face of truth.” Sir T. Browne, Religio
Medici.
[56] The term [Greek: sophronikoi] must be understood as governing the
signification of the other two terms, there being no single Greek term
to denote in either case mere dispositions towards these Virtues.
[57] Compare the passage at the commencement of Book X. [Greek: nun de
phainontai] [Greek: katokochimon ek tæs aretæs].
[58] It must be remembered, that [Greek: phronæsis] is used throughout
this chapter in two senses, its proper and complete sense of Practical
Wisdom, and its incomplete one of merely the Intellectual Element of
it.
BOOK VII
[1] The account of Virtue and Vice hitherto given represents rather
what men _may be_ than what they _are_. In this book we take a
practical view of Virtue and Vice, in their ordinary, every day
development.
[2] This illustrates the expression, “_Deceits_ of the Flesh.”
[3] Another reading omits the [Greek:——]; the meaning of the whole
passage would be exactly the same—it would then run, “if he had been
convinced of the rightness of what he does, _i.e._ if he were now
acting on conviction, he might stop in his course on a change of
conviction.”
[4] Major and minor Premises of the [Greek:——] [Greek——]
[5]Some necessarily implying knowledge of the particular, others not.
[6] As a modern parallel, take old Trumbull in Scott’s “Red Gauntlet.”
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