Porfírio (séc. III)

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SENSATION AND INTELLIGENCE.
Aristo (there were two philosophers by this name, one a Stoic, the other an Aristotelian) attributes to the soul a perceptive faculty, which he divides into two parts. According to him, the first, called sensibility, the principle and origin of sensations, is usually kept active by some one of the sense-organs. The other, which subsists by itself, and without organs, does not bear any special name in beings devoid of reason, in whom reason (…)

Igal
28 Ya hemos dicho que la acción y la pasión deben ser calificadas de movimientos; que es posible dividir los movimientos en absolutos, acciones y pasiones; que los otros géneros mencionados son reductibles a los anteriores; que lo relativo consiste en la relación de una cosa a otra y que ambos correlativos coexisten simultáneamente. Cuando lo relativo es resultado de la relación de una sustancia, no será relativo en cuanto sustancia, sino en cuanto parte de una sustancia —tal es el (…)

For perception is a material and passive criterion, while reason (logos) is a formal one and the cause from which motion and being come; on that account sensation, in judging (krinein) by its affection and materially, apprehends things approximately and to the extent that the sense object makes its mark upon it, and signals no more than this, while reason (logos), in operating at a formal and immaterial level, is found to have [39] preconceived (proeilephos) the whole of what is being judged (…)