Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 10 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Ninth. Every thing which is corrupted, is corrupted by its own evil. * For it is not corrupted by its p. 50 own proper good, or by that which is peculiar to it, and which is neither good nor evil, but...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 07 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Twelfth. Every thing which is generated requires matter, and an efficient cause; so that, if that which is generated does not exist always, but only sometimes, this takes place either through...
From The Treatise In Which A Solution Is : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], FROM THE TREATISE IN WHICH A SOLUTION IS GIVEN OF TEN DOUBTS AGAINST PROVIDENCE. Providence, therefore, as we have said, being defined by "the one" and "the good", and the good subsisting prior to intellect...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 14 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Fifth. If time subsist together with heaven ["i.e." with the universe], and neither * can the universe exist if time is not, nor time if the universe has no existence; and if time was not, when...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 03 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Sixteenth. If there are two wills in the Demiurgus, one indeed will be this, that what is moved in a confused and disorderly manner should not exist, as Plato says [in the Timus]; for being willing...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 02 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 78 Argument The Seventeenth. The following axioms, which are Aristotelic, are by a much greater priority Platonic, viz. "Every thing which is generable, is also corruptible, and every thing unbegotten is...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 06 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Thirteenth. Plato says, "that Divinity imparted to the world a motion adapted to a spherical body, viz. a circular motion, which especially subsists about intellect and wisdom." If; therefore, he...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 18 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 35 ARGUMENTS IN PROOF OF THE ETERNITY OF THE WORLD. 1. The first argument is unfortunately lost; but from what may be collected from Philoponus, the substance of it appears to have been this: "th...
Concerning Place : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 93 CONCERNING PLACE. * Simplicius having observed, that Proclus is the only philosopher that he is acquainted with, who thought that place was a body, adds, "he, therefore, admitting the axioms of Aristotle...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 12 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 46 Argument The Seventh. IF the soul of the universe is unbegotten and incorruptible, the world also is unbegotten and incorruptible. For the soul of the world, and likewise every soul, is essentially...
From The Ms. Commentary Of Proclus : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], FROM THE MS. COMMENTARY OF PROCLUS ON THE TENTH BOOK OF THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO. * Proclus having observed, that some persons in his time have been seen sitting or standing on the sepulchres in which they had been...
In Defence Of The Timaeus Of Plato, Against : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], IN DEFENCE OF THE TIMUS OF PLATO, AGAINST THE OBJECTIONS MADE TO IT BY ARISTOTLE. Aristotle objects to the very name of paradigm, asserting that it is metaphorical; and he is much more hostile to the dogma which...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 08 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 56 Argument The Eleventh. Matter (says Plato) subsists for the sake of the universe, for it is the receptacle of generation; but that for the sake of which matter exists, is nothing else than generation. If...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 16 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 37 Argument The Third. If a fabricator [or demiurgus] is the fabricator of a certain thing, he will either be always a fabricator in energy, or at a certain time in capacity only, so as not to fabricate...
From The Fifth Book Of Proclus On The Timaeus : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 33 FROM THE FIFTH BOOK OF PROCLUS ON THE TIMUS OF PLATO. * In this book, in which he explains the doctrine of Plato concerning material forms, he says, that qualities and all material forms derive their...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 04 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Fifteenth. The paradigm of the world is celebrated [by Plato] * by these three names, viz. "only-begotten", "eternal", "all-perfect". And the last of these names pertains also to the universe, but...
On Light : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 1 A TRANSLATION OF THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN OF THE LOST WRITINGS OF PROCLUS. "ON LIGHT. * If with respect to light, one kind is material, but another immaterial, according to the difference of those...
Untitled : * Proclus (b. circa. 412 C.E., d. 485) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher. This is a short book of translations of fragments of Proclus by Thomas Taylor (b. 1758 d. 1835), the English Neoplatonist and translator of Aristotle, Plato and Orpheus. Title Page Preface On Light In Defence of the Timus...
From Olympiodorus, In Aristot. Meteor : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 108 From Olympiodorus, In Aristot. Meteor. P. 59, "It is requisite to know that the divine Proclus, in his Commentaries on the Timus * of Plato, refers metals to the seven planets, and says, that lead is...
Title Page : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN OF THE LOST WRITINGS OF PROCLUS, SURNAMED THE PLATONIC SUCCESSOR. TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK. BY THOMAS TAYLOR. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. ,. London: Printed for the author, and sold...
Extracts From The Commentary Of Simplicius : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 11 THE ORIGINAL OF THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS, FROM THE SAME TREATISE OF PROCLUS, IS ONLY TO BE FOUND IN THE COMMENTARY OF SIMPLICIUS ON THE THIRD BOOK OF ARISTOTLE'S TREATISE ON THE HEAVENS. * IN answer...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 82 Argument The Eighteenth. If things which always subsist according to sameness, and in a similar manner, alone pertain to the most divine of all things, as Plato says in the Politicus,--if this be the case...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 17 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 36 Argument The Second. The paradigm of the world is eternal; and his existence, as a paradigm, is that which is essential, and not accidental to him. But because he possesses the power of being a paradigm...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 09 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Tenth. Each of the elements of which the world consists, when in its proper place, either remains in p. 52 that place, or is moved in a circle; * but when it is not in its own place, it endeavours...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 13 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Sixth. The Demiurgus alone can dissolve the world: for Plato says [in the Timus] that it is in every respect indissoluble, except by him by whom it was bound; for every where it is the province of him...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 05 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 64 Argument The Fourteenth. Every artist either gives subsistence to the matter of that which is the subject of his art, or he causes the matter which already exists to be adapted to his purpose. And if he...
Preface : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. v PREFACE. To the lovers of the wisdom of the Greeks, any remains of the writings of Proclus will always be invaluable, as he was a man who, for the variety of his powers, the beauty of his dicti...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 15 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], Argument The Fourth. Every thing which is generated from a cause essentially immovable is immovable. For if that which makes is immovable, it is immutable; but if immutable, it makes by its very being, not passing...
Arguments In Proof Of The Eternity. Part 11 : * "Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus", by Thomas Taylor, [1825], p. 47 Argument The Eighth. Every thing which is corrupted, is corrupted by the incursion of something foreign to its nature, and is corrupted into something foreign to itself; but there is nothing external...
