The Theology of Plato, in six books — trans. Thomas Taylor
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CHAPTER VII.
What the assertions are in the Republic concerning the first principle, through its analogy to the sun ; where also it is shown, how it is celebrated as the good, and as the most splendid of being. How the sun is the offspring of the good; and that according to each order of divine natures, there is a monad analogous to the first principle. And how the first principle is the cause of all beings, and is itself prior to power and energy.
CHAPTER VIII.
What Plato in his Epistle to Dionysius says the first king is. And admonitions, that the first God is discussed in that Epistle.
CHAPTER IX.
What the three conceptions arc which arc delivered [in that Epistle] concerning the first king. How all things are about him. How all things are for his sake. How he is the cause of all beautiful things. What the order is of these conceptions. And from what hypotheses they
CHAPTER X.
How in the first hypothesis of the Parmenidcs, Plato delivers the doctrine concerning ike one, employing for this purpose negations. And on what account the negations are such and so many.
' For ym>.n«tl read nim»^.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XI.
How it is nereiiary to eotwr on the theory concerning the one, through negations. And what disposition of the soul is most adapted to discussions of th
CHAPTER XII.
A celebration of the one, demonstrating through negative conclusions that it U exempt from all the orders of beings, according to the order delivered in the
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK III.
CHAPTER I.
That after the discussion in common of the one principle of things, it is requisite to treat of the divine orders, and to show how many they are, and how they are divided from each other.
CHAPTER II.
That the multitude of unities according to which the Gods have their hypostasis, subsists after the one.
CHAPTER III.
How many the particulars are which ought to be demonstrated previous to the discovery of the ! of the divine orders, and an uninterrupted narration of the doctrine of these.
CHAPTER IV.
That all the unities are participate. And that there is only one truly su|ieressenlial one ; but that all the other unities are participated by essences.'
CHAPTER V.
That the participations of the unities which are nearer to the one, proceed into moi tases ; but the participations of those that are remote from the one, proceed into more posite hypostases.
hat all the other unities are participated by essences.'
CHAPTER V.
That the participations of the unities which are nearer to the one, proceed into moi tases ; but the participations of those that are remote from the one, proceed into more posite hypostases.
1 These four chapters are comprehended in one in my translation, as they are not marked in the Greek; and I bad not divided them, when this work »u sent to the press, as I have done the chapters of the other books, in wukh there is a similar defect in the ordinal.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI.
What the natures are which participate of the divine unities, and what the order of them is with respect to each other. And that being indeed, is the most ancient of these ; life, the second; intellect, the third; soul, the fourth ; and body, the last. And that there aie also as many
CHAPTER VII.
A resumption of the doctrine concerning the one, and a discussion of the biformod principles pos-
CHAPTER VIII.
What the two principles are of all things posterior to the one ; how Socrates the Philebus calls them bound and infinity ; and of what things they are the causes* to beings.'
CHAPTER IX.
What the third thing is which is produced from the two principles. Why Socrates in the Philebus calls it that which it mixed. That it is nothing else than that which is primarily being.* And how this proceeds from the two principles, and from the one.
CHAPTER X.
How from image* also, it may be inferred, that the first thing which subsists from bound and infinity is being. How this may be demonstrated. And how bound and infinity are twofold ; one order of these subsisting in being, but the other existing prior to being.'
CHAPTER XI.
What the triad is, which Socrates in the Philebus says is inherent in erery thing that is mixed *
CHAPTER XII.
Concerning the first intelligible triad in common ; and how the second triad proceeds analogous to this.*
* For mntmt, it is necessary to read mtmu.
> The seventh and eighth chapters form the third in my translation.
* For w, it is necrssary to read •».
» And die ninth and tenth an the fourth and fifth chapters in my translation. ' This is the sixth chapter in my translation.
' It appears from this account of the contents of the twelfth chapter, that a -considerable part of it is wanting in the original ; because nothing is said in it about the manner in which the second triad proceeds tualogou* to the firrt.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XIII.
What the second intelligible triad is.
hapter, that a -considerable part of it is wanting in the original ; because nothing is said in it about the manner in which the second triad proceeds tualogou* to the firrt.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XIII.
What the second intelligible triad is. A more accurate account of it, as subsisting from that predominates, from that which is participated, and from that which characterizes the mixture.
CHAPTER XIV.
What the third iutclligible triad is ; what that is which predominates, and is participated in this. And at the end, a discourse in common concerning die distinction of the three triads.
CHAPTER XV.
How the intelligible triads are delivered in the Timeus. And
itself, [evincing] that it has the third order in intelligible*.
CHAPTER XVI.
Many demonstrations that eternity subsists according to the middle order of intelligible*.
CHAPTER XVII.
That the one in which eternity abides is the summit of intelligibles.
CHAPTER XVIH.
all the intelligible orders in common, according to the doctrine of Timarus. And a of the peculiarities m the i
CHAPTER XIX.
intelligible forms, and the doctrine unfolding the peculiarity of them. How likewise they are four, and from what causes they i
CHAPTER XX.
That also from what is said in the Sophista, it is possible to discover die three intelligible orders; viz. in that part of the Sophista, in which it is shown what the one being, what whole, and what ail are.
CHAPTER XXI.
A summary account of .what has been said concerning the intelligible triads. And admonitions from Plato that it is possible to divide them into father, power, an
CHAPTER XXII.
How in the Phxdrus it is said that every thing divine is beautiful, wise, and good. What triple i of these Plato delivers. And how from these it is possible to accede to the I separation of the intelligible triads.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXIII.
How Parmenides delivers the multitude of Gods in the second hypothesis. And how we should about each order of them, employing for this purpose the conclusions of that
CHAPTER XXIV.
What the first intelligible triad is according to Parmcuidcs. Whence be begins, and how far he proceeds, teaching concerning it.
CHAPTER XXV.
What the second intelligible triad is. How it is delivered by Parmenides in triad prior to it. And how far be produces the discourse concerning it.
CHAPTER XXVI.
What the third intelligible triad is. And bow Parmenides unfolds it throngh the third conclusion.
CHAPTER XXVII.
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