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Now on the subject of psychology some of the teaching current in extraneous
discourses1 is satisfactory, and
may be adopted here: namely that the soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the
other capable of reason.2
1 These ἐξωτερικοὶ λόγοι are also mentioned in 6.4.2 and six other places in Aristotle （see Ross on Aristot. Met. 1076a 28）. In Aristot. Pol. 1323a 22 they are appealed to for the tripartite classification of goods which in 8.2 above is ascribed to current opinion ‘of long standing and generally accepted by students of philosophy.’ The phrase therefore seems to denote arguments or doctrines （whether familiar in philosophic debates, for which see note on 5.6, or actually recorded in books）, that were not peculiar to the Peripatetic school; in some cases, as here, it may refer specially to the tenets of the Academy.
2 Literally “having a plan or principle.”
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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