Select works porphyry containing (28 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book ''Select Works of Porphyry'' is a collection of writings by the ancient philosopher Porphyry, translated into English and published in 1823. The book contains four of Porphyry's works on the topic of abstinence from animal food, which explore the ethical and spiritual reasons for avoiding meat and other animal products. In addition, the book includes Porphyry's treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs, which examines the symbolism and mythology of a famous cave mentioned in Homer's Odyssey. Overall, this book provides valuable insight into the philosophical and spiritual beliefs of Porphyry, a prominent figure in ancient Greek thought.And His Auxiliaries To The Perception Of Intelligible Natures, With An Appendix, Explaining The Allegory Of The Wanderings Of Ulysses.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.…

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First edition. Large 8vo. Handsomely bound by Charles Lewis in contemporary full green morocco. Boards ruled in gilt, the spine with five raised bands, compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, date in gilt to the foot of the spine, and red morocco label with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Olive-green endpapers. Printed on thicker paper than usually encountered, possibly a large paper copy. Old pencil note to the front free endpaper "Bound by C. Lewis". A very good copy, the binding square, firm and bright with a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents with a nineteenth-century bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown, a small pen annotation to two page margins, underlining to three lines on one page, and some light scattered foxing to preliminary pages and page edges are otherwise in very good order. A most attractive copy. A beautifully bound copy of the first English translation of Porphyry's 'On Abstinence from Animal Food' - one of the earliest extant works on vegetarianism. The philosophers Pythagoras (c.570-c.495 BC), Plutarch (46-after 119 AD) and Porphyry (c.234-c.305 AD) were the three most well-known vegetarian authors of classical antiquity. The vegetarian ideals of Pythagoras, the earliest of the three thinkers, were borne by a number of his followers down the centuries, with the phrase 'Pythagorean diet' coming to serve as the term most commonly used to describe vegetarianism, prior to the coining of the latter term in the early nineteenth century. Despite this lasting fame, his writings on the subject have not actually survived, leaving Plutarch's essays in his 'Moralia' and Porphyry's 'On Abstinence from Animal Food' as the foundational texts in the vegetarian canon. One of the most quoted and referenced works for virtually all subsequent vegetarian writers, Porphyry argues in his exposition that the killing of animals for either sacrifice or food is both unjust and unnecessary, as well as harmful to the purity and piety of the human individual. As he explains, by slaughtering animals for our own purposes "a barbarous and brutal nature becomes strengthened in us, which renders men insensible to the feeling of pity and compassion. Those who first perpetrated these iniquities fatally blunted the most important part of the (civilised) soul". This first English translation was produced by the neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1758-1835), who was also the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato, as well as the Orphic fragments. A great admirer of Hellenism, Taylor was an fervent critic of the corruptions of organised Christianity. He was also a frequently outspoken member of London's intellectual milieu, notably publishing a satire in reaction to Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man' and Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women', titled 'A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes' (1792), which (sarcastically) suggested that if men and women should have rights, then why not also animals? Taylor's edition of Porphyry was significant in aiding the development of vegetarian thought in the nineteenth century (whether he intended it to or not), and his translations as a whole were influential for a number of leading figures in both British Romaniticism and American transcendentalism. Suitably bound in rich green morocco with olive-green endpapers by Charles Lewis, one of the greatest masters of the craft during the period, the present copy is perhaps one of the nicest examples one could find of this cornerstone of any library of vegetarian literature. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. …

Rare first edition in English of 14 chapters from Plotinus's Enneads, translated by Thomas Taylor. We have traced only two copies in auction records, both before 1950. Taylor (1758-1835) was the main exponent of Neoplatonism in England between the late 18th and 19th centuries. He was the first translator of Plotinus. This is his third compilation of chapters, and the most substantial, following An Essay on the Beautiful in 1792 and Five Books of Plotinus in 1794, the latter featuring essays on happiness, evil, providence, nature, and the soul. More ambitious than the previous, this publication covers all the foundational principles of Neoplatonism. A prolific translator, Taylor is best known for his versions of Aristotle, Plato, and other ancient Greek writers. They were influential and inspired authors including William Blake, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, Mary Woolstonecraft, and Helena Blavatsky. Lowndes III, p. 1887. Octavo (208 x 128 mm), pp. lxxxiii, [1], 600. Twentieth-century red half morocco, spine with raised bands, compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, pink cloth sides, marbled endpapers and edges. Ownership inscription on initial blank of Charles Albert Browne Jr (1870-1947), American chemist and writer on ancient Greek alchemy. Small loss at head of spine, corners bumped and worn, rear inner hinge split (visible at final leaf), but firm, little worm trails in margins throughout, light damp stain in lower margin of a couple of central gatherings. A very good copy.…