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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the Learned Section 32
Section 32 of 257
Canonical reference 11.32
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
ἀπ’ οὐδεμιᾶς γὰρ αὐτῶν συμβαίνει [τὸ] αὐτὸ τοῦτο τὸ ὠφελεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς φρονήσεως τὸ φρονεῖν καὶ οὐ κοινότερον τὸ ὠφελεῖν (εἰ γὰρ αὐτὸ τοῦτο συμβαίνοι, τὸ ὠφελεῖν, οὐκ ἔσται ὡρισμένως φρόνησις, γενικὴ δ’ ἀρετή), καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς σωφροσύνης τὸ κατ’ αὐτὴν κατηγόρημα, σωφρονεῖν, οὐ τὸ κοινόν, ὠφελεῖν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν λοιπῶν τὸ ἀνάλογον.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
For from none of them comes this very thing, benefiting, but from prudence comes prudent thinking, not the more general benefiting. For if benefiting itself came from it, it would not be specifically prudence but generic virtue. From temperance comes the predicate proper to it, acting temperately, not the common predicate, benefiting; and analogously with the rest.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Car aucune d’elles ne produit précisément le fait général d’être utile : de la prudence vient l’acte d’être prudent, non, plus généralement, le fait d’être utile. Si elle produisait précisément l’utilité, elle ne serait plus spécifiquement la prudence, mais la vertu générique. De la tempérance vient pareillement son prédicat propre, être tempérant, non le prédicat commun, être utile ; et il en va de façon analogue pour les autres vertus.
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