ESSAYS

and

MISCELLANIES

The Complete Works Volume 3

By Plutarch

CONTENTS

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

THAT A PHILOSOPHER OUGHT CHIEFLY TO CONVERSE WITH GREAT MEN.

SENTIMENTS CONCERNING NATURE WITH WHICH PHILOSOPHERS WERE DELIGHTED

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I. WHAT IS NATURE?

CHAPTER II. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRINCIPLE AND AN ELEMENT?

CHAPTER III. WHAT ARE PRINCIPLES?

CHAPTER IV. HOW WAS THIS WORLD COMPOSED IN THAT ORDER AND AFTER THAT MANNER IT IS?

CHAPTER V. WHETHER THE UNIVERSE IS ONE SINGLE THING.

CHAPTER VI. WHENCE DID MEN OBTAIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE OF A DEITY?

CHAPTER VII. WHAT IS GOD?

CHAPTER VIII. OF THOSE THAT ARE CALLED GENIUSES AND HEROES

CHAPTER IX. OF MATTER.

CHAPTER X. OF IDEAS.

CHAPTER XI. OF CAUSES.

CHAPTER XII. OF BODIES.

CHAPTER XIII. OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE LEAST IN NATURE.

CHAPTER XIV. OF FIGURES.

CHAPTER XV. OF COLORS.

CHAPTER XVI. OF THE DIVISION OF BODIES.

CHAPTER XVII. HOW BODIES ARE MIXED AND CONTEMPERATED ONE WITH ANOTHER.

CHAPTER XVIII. OF A VACUUM.

CHAPTER XIX. OF PLACE.

CHAPTER XX. OF SPACE.

CHAPTER XXI. OF TIME.

CHAPTER XXII. OF THE SUBSTANCE AND NATURE OF TIME.

CHAPTER XXIII. OF MOTION.

CHAPTER XXIV. OF GENERATION AND CORRUPTION.

CHAPTER XXV. OF NECESSITY.

CHAPTER XXVI. OF THE NATURE OF NECESSITY.

CHAPTER XXVII. OF DESTINY OR FATE.

CHAPTER XXVIII. OF THE NATURE OF FATE.

CHAPTER XXIX. OF FORTUNE.

CHAPTER XXX. OF NATURE.

BOOK II.

CHAPTER I. OF THE WORLD.

CHAPTER II. OF THE FIGURE OF THE WORLD.

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