The Complete Works Volume 3 : Essays and Miscellanies

By Plutarch

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Title:	The Complete Works Volume 3 : Essays and Miscellanies
Author:	Plutarch
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE PLEASURABLY ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE OF EPICURUS. PLUTARCH, ZEUXIPPUS, THEON, ARISTODEMUS. Epicurus?s great confidant and familiar, Colotes, set forth a book with this title to it, that according to the tenets of the other philosophers it is impossible to live. Now what occurred to me then to say against him, in the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into writing by me. But since upon breaking up of our lecture several things have happened to be spoken afterwards in the walks in further opposition to his party, I thought it not amiss to recollect them also, if for no other reason, yet for this one, that those who will needs be contradicting other men may see that they ought not to run cursorily over the discourses and writings of those they would disprove, nor by tearing out one word here and another there, or by falling foul upon particular passages without the books, to impose upon the ignorant and unlearned.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Complete Works Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies, 1 -- Plutarch, 1 -- PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS, 9 -- THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE PLEASURABLY ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE -- OF EPICURUS, 9 -- THAT A PHILOSOPHER OUGHT CHIEFLY TO CONVERSE WITH GREAT MEN, 29 -- SENTIMENTS CONCERNING NATURE WITH WHICH PHILOSOPHERS WERE -- DELIGHTED, 33 -- BOOK I, 33 -- Chapter I. WHAT IS NATURE?, 33 -- Chapter II. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRINCIPLE AND AN -- ELEMENT?, 33 -- Chapter III. WHAT ARE PRINCIPLES?, 34 -- Chapter IV. HOW WAS THIS WORLD COMPOSED IN THAT ORDER AND -- AFTER THAT MANNER IT IS?, 36 -- Chapter V. WHETHER THE UNIVERSE IS ONE SINGLE THING, 37 -- Chapter VI. WHENCE DID MEN OBTAIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE -- EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE OF A DEITY?, 38 -- Chapter VII. WHAT IS GOD?, 39 -- Chapter VIII. OF THOSE THAT ARE CALLED GENIUSES AND HEROES, 41 -- Chapter IX. OF MATTER, 41 -- Chapter X. OF IDEAS, 41 -- Chapter XI. OF CAUSES, 42 -- Chapter XII. OF BODIES, 42 -- Chapter XIII. OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE LEAST IN NATURE, 42 -- Chapter XIV. OF FIGURES, 42 -- Chapter XV. OF COLORS, 42 -- Chapter XVI. OF THE DIVISION OF BODIES, 43 -- Chapter XVII. HOW BODIES ARE MIXED AND CONTEMPERATED ONE -- WITH ANOTHER, 43 -- Chapter XVIII. OF A VACUUM, 43 -- Chapter XIX. OF PLACE, 43 -- Chapter XX. OF SPACE, 43 -- Chapter XXI. OF TIME, 43 -- Chapter XXII. OF THE SUBSTANCE AND NATURE OF TIME, 44 -- Chapter XXIII. OF MOTION, 44 -- Chapter XXIV. OF GENERATION AND CORRUPTION, 44 -- Chapter XXV. OF NECESSITY, 44 -- Chapter XXVI. OF THE NATURE OF NECESSITY, 44 -- Chapter XXVII. OF DESTINY OR FATE, 44 -- Chapter XXVIII. OF THE NATURE OF FATE, 45 -- Chapter XXIX. OF FORTUNE, 45 -- Chapter XXX. OF NATURE, 45 -- BOOK II, 45 -- Chapter I. OF THE WORLD, 45 -- Chapter III. WHETHER THE WORLD BE AN ANIMAL, 46 -- Chapter IV. WHETHER THE WORLD IS ETERNAL AND INCORRUPTIBLE, 46 -- The Complete Works Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies -- i