Metaphysics and Ethics

...it does not participate in it, but it happens to it. For he teaches double wisdom. But if there is a just hope, this does not only signify here that [it is] there, or what it is to say existence itself, but [what is] one in itself in many. And if in some way the same things are called his by approaching some existence. And if more in corruptible dualities, in the duality to you, many [things]; because if of an imprudent duality, one and two, because in this, whatever is of the similar, it is not the same species—it will be an equivocation. And if he calls good, warm [things], and the like, as a seal, one in their chastity in the species. Omnibus, however, someone will doubt most of all what they offer, the wise men seem to see, or of this which is done in corrupt things. For not even death, if only the dead are nothing, and thus to such an extent that not even now also is there any merit, or that anything is any of those things. For neither is that man in the essence of his soul, nor [are] the animals [in the essence] as not participating in both. For thus [are] animals according to that cause, and yet of another merit. Item, this, that if one [is] before the movable [things], because [it is] more prior to the begotten [things] themselves, anything is easily said; for [it is] long and many, since [there are] impossibilities for such an opinion. But truly, neither in the turfs are there other [things], and many modes [are] accustomed to it. For I see that there are examples which are other participants [by] one analogy. And to say poetic metaphors. For what is it that acts looking to the ideas? For it happens that whatever is, it is permitted that whatever is not assimilated to that. Wherefore also to exist and not to exist, to become such as Socrates. They are, however, openly [known], since if there are species, species seem to be examples openly. And from the similar, as of man another, and of animal there is animal; but the friend says [they] are not only examples of sensibles but also of themselves, like of the genus. But if it is...

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...an example and image, then more noble; for it is impossible, 72, that which is animal. Wherefore, just as they seem to be sufficiently true, [it] is [a matter] of those who know [how] they are separated. Moreover, it is necessary as if he says who himself is, or there are species, and if it already has substance, yet they are not principles such as [those] according to motion. And again, there are others as against animals, of which we do not say there are species. And it is clear that from five to others [there is] not the same essence; how such or such are [derived] from the same, there are many according to these; how their existence is seen, which elsewhere in just [things] is [their] essence: as here that which is now my good, indeed a species. And again, another, another. What if of this [are] those [things] to them? For not if of this which is in wisdom, that is not—it will be. If, however, that which is not one in other modes in itself, but irony is clear that it is one, which is [that which] tones in one according to the thing; more since of them, not anyone will be [of the] wholes; others to another. Nor does it bring [anything] if these same are into one, therefore [those] which make to one. How much, however, is it necessary that that nothing [which] is thus is not: if it will be truly into one of certain things, and not now which is this about now, furthermore, and most of all, now one may be, now to be; or one species of animal. For if not even this is moved in any one in which it holds its unities. Whether, therefore, the same species [is] in many, as in knowledge, it happens that this is not the same itself in [relation] correctly to each other: if, however, it is not for all. For by what difference would it exist separably? Nor are the rational [things] according to this understood to be shown. Amplius, however, it is necessary that something else [be] more or less, as that which is of the soul, and all intermediates as much as by some if there are species, but principles everywhere in matter, as if since it is. Moreover, unities which are in duality, and as if according to that which if now duality which [is] there. Moreover, if indeed...