Contents
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Proclus and Taylor, Thomas
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THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK I.
CHAPTER I.
The Preface, in which the scope of the treatise is unfolded, together with the praise of Plato himself, and of those that received the philosophy from him.
CHAPTER II.
What the mode of the discussion is in the present treatise, and what preparation of the auditors of it is previously necessary.
CHAPTER III.
What a theologist is according to Plato, whence he begins, as far as to what hypostases he ascends, and according to what power of the soul he particularly energizes.
CHAPTER IV.
The theological types or forms according to all which Plato disposes the doctrine concerning the Gods.
CHAPTER V.
What the dialogues are from which the theology of Plato may especially be assumed; and to what orders of Gods each of these dialogues refers us.
CHAPTER VI.
An objection against collecting the Platonic theology from many dialogues, in consequence of its being partial, and distributed into minute parts.
CHAPTER VII.
A solution of the before mentioned objection, referring to one dialogue, the Parmenides, the whole truth concerning the Gods according to Plato.
CHAPTER VIII.
An enumeration of the different opinions concerning the Parmenides, and a division of the objections to them.
CHAPTER IX.
A confutation of those who assert that the Parmenides is a logical dialogue, and who admit that the discussion in it is argumentative, proceeding through subjects of opinion.
CHAPTER X.
How far they are right who assert that the hypotheses of the Parmenides are concerning the principles of things, and what is to be added to what they say from the doctrine of our preceptor [Syrianus.]
CHAPTER XI.
Many demonstrations concerning the conclusions of the second hypothesis, and of the division of it according to the divine orders.
CHAPTER XII.
The intention of the hypotheses, demonstrating their connexion with each other, and their consent with the things themselves.[66]
CHAPTER XIII.
What the common rules concerning the Gods are, which Plato delivers in the Laws. And also concerning the hyparxis of the Gods, their providence, and their immutable perfection.
CHAPTER XIV.
How the hyparxis of the Gods is delivered in the Laws, and through what media the discourse recurs to the truly existing Gods.——How the providence of the Gods is demonstrated in the Laws, and what the mode of their providence is according to Plato.[67]
CHAPTER XV.
Through what arguments in the same treatise [the Laws] it is demonstrated that the Gods provide [for all things,] immutably.
CHAPTER XVI.
What the axioms are concerning the Gods which are delivered in the Republic, and what order they have with respect to each other.
CHAPTER XVII.
What the goodness of the Gods is, and how they are said to be the causes of all good; and that evil according to every hypostasis is itself adorned and arranged by the Gods.
CHAPTER XVIII.
What the immutability is of the Gods; where also it is shown what their self-sufficiency, and firm impassivity are; and how we are to understand their possessing an invariable sameness of subsistence.
CHAPTER XIX.
What the simplicity is of the Gods; and how that which is simple in them appears to be various in secondary natures.