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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the Learned Section 70
Section 70 of 257
Canonical reference 11.70
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
παρὸ καὶ ὁ Πλάτων συνιστὰς, ὅτι φύσει ἀγαθόν ἐστιν ὁ θεός, ἀπὸ τῶν ὁμοίων ἐπικεχείρηκεν. ὧς γὰρ θερμοῦ, φησίν, ἴδιόν ἐστι τὸ θερμαίνειν καὶ ψυχροῦ ἴδιόν ἐστι τὸ ψύχειν, οὕτω καὶ ἀγαθοῦ ἴδιόν ἐστι τὸ ἀγαθοποιεῖν· τἀγαθὸν δέ γε ὁ θεός·
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Hence Plato too, in establishing that god is good by nature, argued from similar cases. Just as, he says, it is characteristic of what is hot to heat and of what is cold to cool, so it is characteristic of what is good to do good. But god is good.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
C’est pourquoi Platon, établissant que le dieu est bon par nature, a lui aussi argumenté à partir de choses semblables. De même, dit-il, que le propre du chaud est de chauffer et le propre du froid de refroidir, le propre du bien est de faire du bien. Or le dieu est le bien.
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