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We must consider also in which of two ways the nature of the universe
contains the good, and the highest good, whether as something separate
and by itself, or as the order of the parts. |
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We must not fail to observe how many impossible or paradoxical results
confront those who hold different views from our own, and what are
the views of the subtler thinkers, and which views are attended by
fewest difficulties. |
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Empedocles also has a paradoxical view; |
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Anaxagoras makes the good a motive principle; |
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Further, why should there always be becoming, and what is the cause
of becoming? |
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Again, if besides sensible things no others exist, there will be
no first principle, no order, no becoming, no heavenly bodies, but
each principle will have a principle before it, as in the accounts
of the theologians and all the natural philosophers. |
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'The rule of many is not good; |
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