Proclus' Elements of Theology

PROCLUS

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1823. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE 1 SELECT WORKS OF PORPHYRY. ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE FIRST. 1. Hearing from some of our acquaintance, 0 Firmus", that you, having rejected a fleshless diet, have again returned to animal food, at first I did not credit the report, when I considered your temperance, and the reverence which you have been taught to pay to those ancient and pious men from whom we have received the precepts of philosophy. But when others who came after these confirmed this report, it appeared to me that it would be too rustic and remote from the rational method of persuasion to reprehend you, who neither, according to the proverb, flying from evil have found something better, nor according to Empedocles, having lamented your former life, have converted yourself to one that is more excellent. I have therefore thought it worthy of the friendship which subsists between us, and also adapted to those who have arranged their life con 1 Porphyry elsewhere calls this Firmus Castricius his friend and fellow disciple. See more concerning him in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. B formably to truth, to disclose your errors through a confutation derived from an argumentative discussion. 2, For when I considered with myself what could be the cause of this alteration in your diet, I could by no means suppose that it was for the sake of health and strength, as the vulgar and idiots would say; since, on the contrary, you yourself, when you were with us, confessed that a fleshless diet contributed both to health and to the proper endurance of philosophic labours; and experience testifies, that in saying this you spoke the truth. It appears, therefore, that you have returned to your former illegitimateb conduct, either through deception0, because you think it makes no difference with re...

Select works of Porphyry (Volume II of the Thomas Taylor series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Porphyry

Philosophy

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The Theology of Plato

The Laws, Taylor has added an account of the Festivals of the Ancients, excerpted from The Descriptions of Libanius. Epinomis; The Timaeus,to which Taylor added excerpts from Proclus' Commentaries on the Timaeus, as additional notes; and The Critias. The volume has had the relevant pagination (e.g. Stephanus, etc.) added to the body of the text, along with extensive footnote references. The Commentaries (as additional notes) have also received the same attention where possible.

Works of Plato: v. 2 (Thomas Taylor)

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The Parmenides, complete with most of Proclus' Commentaries on the Parmenides as additional notes; The Sophista; The Phaedrus, with a considerable portion of The Scholia of Hermias on the Phaedrus as additional notes. The Greater Hippias; The Banquet (Symposium). Included are two articles by Taylor relevant to these dialogues. The volume has had the relevant pagination (e.g. Stephanus, etc.) added to the body of the text, along with extensive footnote references. The Commentaries (as additional notes) have also received the same attention where possible.

Works of Plato: v. 3 (Thomas Taylor)

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Works of Plato: v. 4 (Thomas Taylor)

The Euthyphro; The Meno, with Sydenham's original diagrams and additional notes; The Protagoras (Sophist); The Theages; The Laches; The Lysis; The Charmides; The Lesser Hippias, with extensive additional notes; The Euthydemus; The Hipparchus; The Rivals, with extensive additional notes by Sydenham; The Menexenus, with additional notes; The Clitopho; The Io, with extensive additional notes by Sydenham and Taylor; The Cratylus, with extensive notes from Taylor, Proclus, and Julian; Proclus' Scholia on the Cratylus, (practically the whole); The Epistles of Plato. Included is an article by Taylor and an Index to the notes contained in five volumes of the Works of Plato. The volume has ad the relevant pagination (e.g. Stephanus, etc.) added to the body of the text, along with extensive footnote references. The Commentaries (as additional notes) have also received the same attention where possible.

Works of Plato: v. 5 (Thomas Taylor)

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Apuleius' " Golden Ass " , Or, the " Metamorphosis " : And Other Philosophical Writings Viz on the God of Socrates and on the Philosophy of Plato (Thomas Taylor)

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