The Complete Works Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
SENTIMENTS CONCERNING NATURE WITH WHICH PHILOSOPHERS
WERE DELIGHTED
- BOOK I.
- BOOK II.
- BOOK III.
- BOOK IV.
- CHAPTER I. OF THE OVERFLOWING OF THE NILE.
- CHAPTER II. OF THE SOUL.
- CHAPTER III. WHETHER THE SOUL BE A BODY, AND WHAT
IS THE NATURE AND ESSENCE OF IT.
- CHAPTER IV. OF THE PARTS OF THE SOUL.
- CHAPTER V. WHAT IS THE PRINCIPAL PART OF THE SOUL,
AND IN WHAT PART OF THE BODY IT RESIDES.
- CHAPTER VI. OF THE MOTION OF THE SOUL.
- CHAPTER VII. OF THE SOUL'S IMMORTALITY.
- CHAPTER VIII. OF THE SENSES, AND OF THOSE THINGS
WHICH ARE OBJECTS OF THE SENSES.
- CHAPTER IX. WHETHER WHAT APPEARS TO OUR SENSES AND
IMAGINATIONS BE TRUE OR NOT.
- CHAPTER X. HOW MANY SENSES ARE THERE?
- CHAPTER XI. HOW THE ACTIONS OF THE SENSES, THE
CONCEPTIONS OF OUR MINDS, AND THE HABIT OF OUR REASON ARE FORMED.
- CHAPTER XII. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
IMAGINATION [GREEK OMITTED], THE IMAGINABLE [GREEK OMITTED], FANCY
[GREEK OMITTED], AND PHANTOM [GREEK OMITTED]?
- CHAPTER XIII. OF OUR SIGHT, AND BY WHAT MEANS WE
SEE.
- CHAPTER XIV. OF THOSE IMAGES WHICH ARE PRESENTED
TO OUR EYES IN MIRRORS.
- CHAPTER XV. WHETHER DARKNESS CAN BE VISIBLE TO US.
- CHAPTER XVII. OF SMELLING.
- CHAPTER XVIII. OF TASTE.
- CHAPTER XIX. OF THE VOICE.
- CHAPTER XX. WHETHER THE VOICE IS INCORPOREAL.
WHAT IS IT THAT THE GIVES ECHO?
- CHAPTER XXI. BY WHAT MEANS THE SOUL IS SENSIBLE,
AND WHAT IS THE PRINCIPAL AND COMMANDING PART OF IT.
- CHAPTER XXII. OF RESPIRATION OR BREATHING.
- CHAPTER XXIII. OF THE PASSIONS OF THE BODY, AND
WHETHER THE SOUL HATH A SYMPATHETICAL CONDOLENCY WITH IT.
- BOOK V
SYMPOSIACS.
- BOOK 1.
- BOOK II.
- QUESTION I. WHAT, AS XENOPHON INTIMATES, ARE THE
MOST AGREEABLE QUESTIONS AND MOST PLEASANT RAILLERY AT AN ENTERTAINMENT?
- QUESTION II. WHY IN AUTUMN MEN HAVE BETTER
STOMACHS THAN IN OTHER SEASONS OF THE YEAR.
- QUESTION III. WHICH WAS FIRST THE BIRD OR THE EGG?
- QUESTION IV. WHETHER OR NO WRESTLING IS THE OLDEST
EXERCISE.
- QUESTION V. WHY, IN RECKONING UP DIFFERENT KINDS
OF EXERCISES, HOMER PUTS CUFFING FIRST, WRESTLING NEXT, AND RACING LAST.
- QUESTION VI. WHY FIR-TREES, PINE-TREES, AND THE
LIKE WILL NOT BE GRAFTED UPON.
- QUESTION VII. ABOUT THE FISH CALLED REMORA OR
ECHENEIS.
- QUESTION VIII. WHY THEY SAY THOSE HORSES CALLED
[GREEK OMITTED] ARE VERY METTLESOME.
- QUESTION IX. WHY THE FLESH OF SHEEP BITTEN BY
WOLVES IS SWEETER THAN THAT OF OTHERS, AND THE WOOL MORE APT TO BREED
LICE.
- QUESTION X. WHETHER THE ANCIENTS, BY PROVIDING
EVERY ONE HIS MESS, DID BEST OR WE, WHO SET MANY TO THE SAME DISH.
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV.
- BOOK V.
- BOOK VI.
- BOOK VII.
- BOOK VIII.
- QUESTION I. CONCERNING THOSE DAYS IN WHICH SOME
FAMOUS MEN WERE BORN; AND ALSO CONCERNING THE GENERATION OF THE GODS.
- QUESTION II. WHAT IS PLATO'S MEANING, WHEN HE SAYS
THAT GOD ALWAYS PLAYS THE GEOMETER?
- QUESTION III. WHY NOISES ARE BETTER HEARD IN THE
NIGHT THAN THE DAY.
- QUESTION IV. WHY, WHEN IN THE SACRED GAMES ONE
SORT OF GARLAND WAS GIVEN IN ONE, AND ANOTHER IN ANOTHER, THE PALM WAS
COMMON TO ALL. AND WHY THEY CALL THE GREAT DATES [Greek omitted].
- QUESTION V. WHY THOSE THAT SAIL UPON THE NILE TAKE
UP THE WATER THEY ARE TO USE BEFORE DAY.
- QUESTION VI. CONCERNING THOSE WHO COME LATE TO AN
ENTERTAINMENT; AND FROM WHENCE THESE WORDS, [Greek omitted] AND,
[Greek omitted] ARE DERIVED.
- QUESTION VII. CONCERNING PYTHAGORAS'S SYMBOLS, IN
WHICH HE FORBIDS US TO RECEIVE A SWALLOW INTO OUR HOUSE, AND BIDS US AS
SOON AS WE ARE RISEN TO RUFFLE THE BEDCLOTHES.
- QUESTION VIII. WHY THE PYTHAGOREANS COMMAND FISH
NOT TO BE EATEN, MORE STRICTLY THAN OTHER ANIMALS.
- QUESTION IX. WHETHER THERE CAN BE NEW DISEASES,
AND HOW CAUSED.
- QUESTION X. WHY WE GIVE LEAST CREDIT TO DREAMS IN
AUTUMN.
- BOOK IX
- COMMON CONCEPTIONS AGAINST THE STOICS.
- CONTRADICTIONS OF THE STOICS.
- THE EATING OF FLESH.
- CONCERNING FATE.
- AGAINST COLOTES, THE DISCIPLE AND FAVORITE OF
EPICURUS.
- PLATONIC QUESTIONS.
- QUESTION I. WHY DID GOD COMMAND SOCRATES TO ACT
THE MIDWIFE'S PART TO OTHERS, BUT CHARGED HIMSELF NOT TO GENERATE; AS
HE AFFIRMS IN THEAETETUS?
- QUESTION II. WHY DOES HE CALL THE SUPREME GOD
FATHER AND MAKER OF ALL THINGS?
- QUESTION III.
- QUESTION IV. WHAT IS THE REASON THAT, THOUGH
PLATO ALWAYS SAYS THAT THE SOUL IS ANCIENTER THAN THE BODY, AND THAT IT
IS THE CAUSE AND PRINCIPLE OF ITS RISE, YET HE LIKEWISE SAYS, THAT
NEITHER COULD THE SOUL EXIST WITHOUT THE BODY, NOR THE REASON WITHOUT
THE SOUL, BUT THE SOUL IN THE BODY AND THE REASON IN THE SOUL? FOR 80
THE BODY WILL SEEM TO BE AND NOT TO BE, BECAUSE IT BOTH EXISTS WITH THE
SOUL, AND IS BEGOT BY THE SOUL.
- QUESTION V. WHY, SINCE BODIES AND FIGURES ARE
CONTAINED PARTLY BY RECTILINEARS AND PARTLY BY CIRCLES, DOES HE MAKE
ISOSCELES TRIANGLES AND TRIANGLES OF UNEQUAL SIDES THE PRINCIPLES OF
RECTILINEARS; OF WHICH THE ISOSCELES TRIANGLE CONSTITUTES THE CUBE, THE
ELEMENT OF THE EARTH; AND A SCALENE TRIANGLE FORMS THE PYRAMID, THE
OCTAHEDRON THE SEED OF FIRE, AIR AND WATER RESPECTIVELY, AND THE
ICOSAHEDRON;-- WHILE HE PASSES OVER CIRCULARS, THOUGH HE DOES MENTION
THE GLOBE, WHERE HE SAYS THAT EACH OF THE AFORE-RECKONED FIGURES
DIVIDES A ROUND BODY THAT CIRCUMSCRIBES IT INTO EQUAL PARTS. (See
"Timaeus," pp. 53-56.)
- QUESTION VI. HOW COMES IT TO PASS THAT IN
PHAEDRUS IT IS SAID, THAT THE NATURE OF A WING, BY WHICH ANYTHING THAT
IS HEAVY IS CARRIED UPWARDS, PARTICIPATES MOST OF THE BODY OF GOD? (See
"Phaedrus," p. 246 D.)
- QUESTION VII. IN WHAT SENSE DOES PLATO SAY, THAT
THE ANTIPERISTASIS (OR REACTION) OF MOTION--BY REASON THERE IS NO
VACUUM--IS THE CAUSE OF THE PHENOMENA IN PHYSICIANS' CUPPING-GLASSES,
IN SWALLOWING, IN CASTING WEIGHTS, IN THE RUNNING OF WATER, IN THUNDER,
IN THE ATTRACTION OF THE LOADSTONE, AND IN THE HARMONY OF SOUNDS? (See
"Timaeus," pp. 79-81.)
- QUESTION VIII. WHAT MEANS TIMAEUS (See "Timaeus,"
p. 42 D.) WHEN HE SAYS THAT SOULS ARE DISPERSED INTO THE EARTH, THE
MOON, AND INTO OTHER INSTRUMENTS OF TIME?
- QUESTION IX. DID PLATO PLACE THE RATIONAL OR THE
IRASCIBLE FACULTY IN THE MIDDLE? FOR HE IS NOT CLEAR IN THE POINT.
- QUESTION X. WHY SAID PLATO, THAT SPEECH WAS
COMPOSED OF NOUNS AND VERBS? (Plato's "Sophist," p. 262 A.)
- LITERARY ESSAYS.
- THE BANQUET OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN.
- HOW A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO HEAR POEMS.
- ABSTRACT OF A COMPARISON BETWEEN ARISTOPHANE AND
MENANDER
- THE MALICE OF HERODOTUS.
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