Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 267 pages of information about Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 267 pages of information about Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

[Greek:  logikos], rational.

[Greek:  logos], reason.

[Greek:  logos spermatikos], seminal principle.

[Greek:  mesa, ta], things indifferent, viewed with respect to
  virtue.

[Greek:  noeros], intellectual.

[Greek:  nomos], law.

[Greek:  nous], intelligence, understanding.

[Greek:  oiesis], arrogance, pride.  It sometimes means in Antoninus
  the same as [Greek:  typhos]; but it also means “opinion.”

[Greek:  oikonomia] (dispositio, ordo, Cic.) has sometimes the peculiar
  sense of artifice, or doing something with an apparent purpose
  different from the real purpose.

[Greek:  holon, to], the universe, the whole:  [Greek:  he ton olon physis].

[Greek:  onta, ta], things which exist; existence, being.

[Greek:  orexis], desire of a thing, which is opposed to [Greek:  ekklisis], aversion.

[Greek:  horme], movement towards an object, appetite; appetitio, naturalis appetitus, appetitus animi (Cic.).

[Greek:  ousia], substance (vi. 49).  Modern writers sometimes incorrectly
  translate it “essentia.”  It is often used by Epictetus in the same
  sense as [Greek:  hyle].  Aristotle (Cat. c. 5) defines [Greek:  ousia],
  and it is properly translated “substantia” (ed.  Jul.  Pacius). 
  Porphyrius (Isag. c. 2):  [Greek:  he ousia anotato ousa to meden pro
  autes genos hen to genikotaton].

[Greek:  parakolouthetike dynamis, he], the power which enables us
  to observe and understand.

[Greek:  peisis], passivity, opposed to [Greek:  energeia]:  also, affect.

[Greek:  peristaseis], circumstances, the things which surround
  us; troubles, difficulties.

[Greek:  pepromene, he], destiny.

[Greek:  proairesis], purpose, free will (Aristot.  Rhet. i. 13).

[Greek:  proaireta, ta], things which are within our will or power.

[Greek:  proairetikon, to], free will.

[Greek:  prothesis], a purpose, proposition.

[Greek:  pronoia] (providentia, Cic.), providence.

[Greek:  skopos], object, purpose.

[Greek:  stoicheion], element.

[Greek:  synkatathesis] (assensio, approbatio, Cic.), assent; [Greek: 
  synkatatheseis] (probationes, Gellius, xix. 1).

[Greek:  synkrimata], things compounded (ii. 3).

[Greek:  synkrisis], the act of combining elements out of which
  a body is produced, combination.

[Greek:  synthesis], ordering, arrangement (compositio).

[Greek:  systema], system, a thing compounded of parts which
  have a certain relation to one another.

[Greek:  hyle], matter, material.

[Greek:  hylikon, to], the material principle.

[Greek:  hypexairesis], exception, reservation; [Greek:  meth’
  hypexaireseos], conditionally.

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