Essays and Miscellanies
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Essays and Miscellanies
Plutarch, Greek historian, biographer, and essayist (46-120A.D.)
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Table of Contents
- About This Book
- Philosophical Essays
- That A Philosopher Ought Chiefly To Converse With Great Men
- Book I. Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted
- What Is Nature
- What Is The Difference Between A Principle And An Element
- What Are Principles
- How Was This World Composed In That Order And After That Manner It Is
- Whether The Universe Is One Single Thin
- Whence Did Men Obtain The Knowledge Of The Existence And Essence Of A Deity
- What Is God
- Of Those That Are Called Geniuses And Heroes
- Of Matter
- Of Ideas
- Of Causes
- Of Bodies
- Of Those Things That Are Least In Nature
- Of Figures
- Of Colors
- Of The Division Of Bodies
- How Bodies Are Mixed And Contemperated One With Another
- Of A Vacuum
- Of Place
- Of Space
- Of Time
- Of The Substance And Nature Of Time
- Of Motion
- Of Generation And Corruption
- Of Necessity
- Of The Nature Of Necessity
- Of Destiny Or Fate
- Of The Nature Of Fate
- Of Fortune
- Of Nature
- Book Ii. Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted
- Of The World
- Of The Figure Of The World
- Whether The World Be An Animal
- Whether The World Is Eternal And Incorruptible
- Whence Does The World Receive Its Nutriment
- From What Element God Did Begin To Raise The Fabric Of The World
- In What Form And Order The World Was Composed
- What Is The Cause Of The World's Inclination
- Of That Thing Which Is Beyond The World, And Whether It Be A Vacuum Or Not
- What Parts Of The World Are On The Right Hand, And What On The Left
- Of Heaven, What Is Its Nature And Essence
- Into How Many Circles Is The Heaven Distinguished; Or, Of The Division Of Heaven
- What Is The Essence Of The Stars, And How They Are Composed
- Of What Figure The Stars Are
- Of The Order And Place Of The Stars
- Of The Motion And Circulation Of The Stars
- Whence Do The Stars Receive Their Light
- How Stars Prognosticate, And What Is The Cause Of Winter And Summer
- Of The Essence Of The Sun
- Of The Magnitude Of The Sun
- What Is The Figure Or Shape Of The Sun
- Of The Turning And Returning Of The Stars, Or The Summer And Winter Solstice
- Of The Eclipse Of The Sun
- Of The Essence Of The Moon
- Of The Size Of The Moon
- From Whence Is It That The Moon Receives Her Light
- Of The Eclipse Of The Moon
- Of The Phases Of The Moon, Or The Lunar Aspects; Or How It Comes To Pass That The Moon Appears To Us Terrestrial
- How Far The Moon Is Removed From The Sun
- Of The Year, And How Many Circulations Make Up The Great Year Of Every Planet
- Book Iii. Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted
- Of The Galaxy, Or The Milky Way
- Of Comets And Shooting Fires, And Those Which Resemble Beams
- Of Violent Eruption Of Fire Out Of The Clouds. Of Lightning. Of Thunder. Of Hurricanes. Of Whirlwinds
- Of Clouds, Rain, Snow, And Hail
- Of The Rainbow
- Of Meteors Which Resemble Rods, Or Of Rods
- Of Winds
- Of Winter And Summer
- Of The Earth, What Is Its Nature And Magnitude
- Of The Figure Of The Earth
- Of The Site And Position Of The Earth
- Of The Inclination Of The Earth
- Of The Motion Of The Earth
- Into How Many Zones Is The Earth Divided
- Of Earthquakes
- Of The Sea, And How It Is Composed, And How It Becomes To The
- Of Tides, Or Of The Ebbing And Flowing Of The Sea
- Of The Aurea, Or A Circle About A Star
- Book Iv. Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted
- Of The Overflowing Of The Nile
- Of The Soul
- Whether The Soul Be A Body, And What Is The Nature And Essence Of It
- Of The Parts Of The Soul
- What Is The Principal Part Of The Soul, And In What Part Of The Body It Resides
- Of The Motion Of The Soul
- Of The Soul's Immortality
- Of The Senses, And Of Those Things Which Are Objects Of The Senses
- Whether What Appears To Our Senses And Imaginations Be True Or Not
- How Many Senses Are There
- How The Actions Of The Senses, The Conceptions Of Our Minds, And The Habit Of Our Reason Are Formed
- What Is The Difference Between Imagination [greek Omitted], The Imaginable [greek Omitted], Fancy [greek Omitted], And Phantom [greek Omitted]
- Of Our Sight, And By What Means We See
- Of Those Images Which Are Presented To Our Eyes In Mirrors
- Whether Darkness Can Be Visible To Us
- Of Hearing
- Of Smelling
- Of Taste
- Of The Voice
- Whether The Voice Is Incorporeal. What Is It That The Gives Echo
- By What Means The Soul Is Sensible, And What Is The Principal And Commanding Part Of It
- Of Respiration Or Breathing
- Of The Passions Of The Body, And Whether The Soul Hath A Sympathetical Condolency With It
- Book V. Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted
- Of Divination
- Whence Dreams Do Arise
- Of The Nature Of Generative Seed
- Whether The Sperm Be A Body
- Whether Women Do Give A Spermatic Emission As Men Do
- How It Is That Conceptions Are Made
- After What Manner Males And Females Are Generated
- By What Means It Is That Monstrous Births Are Effected
- How It Comes To Pass That A Woman's Too Frequent Conversation With A Man Hinders Conception
- Whence It Is That One Birth Gives Two Or Three Children
- Whence It Is That Children Represent Their Parents And Progenitors
- How It Comes To Pass That Children Have A Greater Similitude With Strangers Than With Their Parents
- Whence Ariseth Barrenness In Women, And Impotency In Men
- How It Arises That Mules Are Barren
- Whether The Infant In The Mother's Womb Be An Animal
- How Embryos Are Nourished, Or How The Infant In The Belly Receives Its Aliment
- What Part Of The Body Is First Formed In The Womb
- Whence Is It That Infants Born In The Seventh Month Are Born Alive.
- Of The Generation Of Animals, How Animals Are Begotten, And Whether They Are Obnoxious To Corruption
- How Many Species Of Animals There Are, And Whether All Animals Have The Endowments Of Sense And Reason
- What Time Is Required To Shape The Parts Of Animals In The Womb
- Of What Elements Each Of The Members Of Us Men Is Composed
- What Are The Causes Of Sleep And Death
- When And From Whence The Perfection Of A Man Commences
- Whether Sleep Or Death Appertains To The Soul Or Body
- How Plants Increase
- Of Nutrition And Growth
- Whence It Is That In Animals There Are Appetites And Pleasures
- What Is The Cause Of A Fever, Or Whether It Is An Affection Of The Body Annexed To A Primary Passion
- Of Health, Sickness, And Old Age
- Abstract Of A Discourse Showing That The Stoics Speak Greater Improbabilities Than The Poets
- Symposiacs
- Book I. Symposiacs
- Book Ii. Symposiacs
- Book Iii. Symposiacs
- Book Iv. Symposiacs
- Book V. Symposiacs
- Book Vi. Symposiacs
- Book Vii. Symposiacs
- Book Viii. Symposiacs
- Book Ix. Symposiacs
- 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
- 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