Carta a Herodot
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~6.950 paraules · 33 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APADiògenes Laerci. (n.d.). Letter to Herodotus [Carta a Herodot]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/diogenes-laertius/letter-to-herodotus
- MLADiògenes Laerci. Letter to Herodotus [Carta a Herodot]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/diogenes-laertius/letter-to-herodotus.
- ChicagoDiògenes Laerci. Letter to Herodotus [Carta a Herodot]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/diogenes-laertius/letter-to-herodotus.
Referència de l’edició reproduïda. SigPhi és la reproducció digital, no l’editor. S’hi inclouen l’any, l’editorial i el traductor quan consten; «n.d.» indica que no consta l’any. La responsabilitat d’un pròleg o d’una nota es determina segons el passatge citat.
De què tracta
La «Carta a Heròdot» d'Epicur, tal com ens ha arribat: dins de Diògenes Laerci.
Context i història
Epicur va escriure tres-cents rotlles i no en queda cap. Aquesta carta existeix perquè Diògenes Laerci la va copiar sencera al llibre X de les seves «Vides dels filòsofs», al segle III. Per això consta sota Diògenes i no sota Epicur: aquesta és la font real, i qui la citi ha de citar-la així.
És el resum de la física atomista fet pel mateix Epicur per als deixebles que no podien llegir l'obra completa.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
Again, we must believe that smelling, like hearing, would produce no sensation, were there not particles conveyed from the object which are of the proper sort for exciting the organ of smelling, some of one sort, some of another, some exciting it confusedly and strangely, others quietly and agreeably. Moreover, we must hold that the atoms in fact possess none of the qualities belonging to things which come under our observation, except shape, weight, and size, and the properties necessarily conjoined with shape. For every quality changes, but the atoms do not change, since, when the composite bodies are dissolved, there must needs be a permanent something, solid and indissoluble, left behind, which makes change possible: not changes into or from the non-existent. but often through differences of arrangement, and sometimes through additions and subtractions of the atoms. Hence these somethings capable of being diversely arranged must be indestructible, exempt from change, but possessed each of its own distinctive mass and configuration. This must remain. For in the case of changes of configuration within our experience the figure is supposed to be inherent when other qualities are stripped of, but the qualities are not supposed, like the shape which is left behind, to inhere in the subject of change, but to vanish altogether from the body. Thus, then, what is left behind is sufficient to account for the differences in composite bodies, since something at least must necessarily be left remaining and be immune from annihilation. Again, you should not suppose that the atoms have any and every size, lest you be contradicted by facts; but differences of size must be admitted; for this addition renders the facts of feeling and sensation easier of explanation.…