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on is accommodated to the vulgar Opinion •, tor, we mult ufe popular and ufual words, when we Ipeak of popular opinions, which in the,
like manner hath done.
h ck.de h Xhe firft way was peculiar to theStoicks, fhort, acute, and fpinous, called likwife Logick moft worthy of Philofbphy ^ for this ufeth defi¬ nition, divifions, and the lights which they af ford, as likewife fimilitudes, dilfimilitudes, and the nice acute diftin£fion of them.
The vulgar way of difpute is likegife twofold, c Senec.. One by continued Oration ^ The other by Qnefti- 14.90. on and Anfwer .• The firft called c Analyuck.^ot dctc. defin.2.^ Rhetorical-., the other e Topick., or j Dial c- 14.^90? g Tho’ the firll be delightful, yet the lat-
/c/c.rfejfn. 2. ter is more commodious, when we infill on g ck. Ibid, particulars, and underfland what every Man granteth, what every Man denieth, what we j would have concluded from concefiions, and brought to an and. For, when a Speech is carried on like a Torrent, altho it bears many things along with it ^ yet we can hold nothing, we can¬ not itop the rapid courle of an Oration, h The h Ck. de nat. Other, concluding as Zeno uled, more ftiortly dear. 2. and narrowly, lieth more open to reprehenfion.
As a River in its Courfe, cannot at all, or very j hardly he corrupted, but W'ater flint up, eafily:' So by a fluent Oration, the faults of the oppofer [ are carried quite away ^ in a narrow Speech, they are not eafily defended.
But each of thefe methods hath a feveral ufe^l the firft is proper for expofition of Arts and Sci¬ ences, the other for Dilputation.
THE
SECOND PART.
CHARI.
E T H I C K and the Darts thereof t
a Laert. a '' I ’*H E Moral part of Philofophy is divi- 1 fted into thefe places j Of Appetite., Of Good and J//, Of Pafficns^ Of Vir- ^ End, of the firfi EJiimation, Of AUwns, Offices, Exhortations and Dehortations.
Thus diftinguiftieth Chryfppus, Archidemus, 01 lards, Apollodorus, Diogenes (the Babylonians) Antipater and. Poffidonins. But Ze¬ no the Cittiean, and Cleanthes, as being more an- pent, were lels accurate in their manner of treat¬ ing upon thefe things.
y Stob. Eclog. Ethic.
CHAP. II.
Of Appetite.
l '* ^ ^ confideration of Ethick, beginn( X properly from Appetite, a Appetite moved by Phantafie of an Office, for it is 1 impulfion of the Soul to fomething.
• ^ rational and irrational Creatu
is diiterent; jg not rational appetite, 1 a ^ccies of rational appetite. Rational appet is defined an impulfion of the IntelleO: to 1 doing of fomething. is a fpecies of {
flick appetite, being an impulfion of the Intellefl to fomething future. Hence appetite is taken four ways, for rational and irrational Inclinati¬ on, and for rational and irrationa,! averfion. To thefe rnay be added the habit of Appetition, which is likewife called Appetite, the Origine of all appetitive Afls.
Of praflick Appetite there are many fpecies, of which are
1. ADefignation.
2. cmCoKii, An Appetite before Appetite.
3. An Aflion before Af lion.
4. an Appetite to fomething now exiltent.
5. ct/fgcr/fj A Will by ratiocination.
6. A Will before a Will.
7. AnjAppetite joyiied with Reafon.