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The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.

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The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
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Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.
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London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring :
1656.
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Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy -- History.
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CHAP. III.

His Writings.

BEcause, saith Laertius, his writings were very celebrious, we shall give an account of them digested according to their subjects: They were these.

  • Of the Logicall place, Theses.
  • Logick.
  • Philosophick Commentaries.
  • Dialectick definitions, to Metrodorus, 6.
  • Of Dialectick names, to Zeno 1.
  • Dialectick art, to Aristagoras 1.
  • Of connex Probables, to Dioscorides 4.
The first order of the Logicall place of things.
  • Of Axioms 1.
  • Of not-simple Axioms 1.
  • Of Connex, to Athenades 2.
  • Of Negatives, to Aristagoras 3.
  • Of Catagoreuticks, to Athenodorus 1.
  • Of things spoken by privation, to Thearus 1.
  • Of best Axioms, to Dion 3.
  • Of Indefinites 4.
  • Of things spoken according to Time 2.
  • Of perfect Axioms 2.

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    The second order.
    • Of true disjunct, to Gorgippides 1.
    • Of true connex, to Gorgippides 4.
    • Division, to Gorgippides 1.
    • Of Consequents I.
    • Of that which is for three, to Gorgippides 1.
    • Of Possibles, to Clitus 4.
    • Of Significations, against Philo 1.
    • What are false 1.
    The third order.
    • Of Precepts 2.
    • Of Interrogations 2.
    • Of Percontation 4.
    • Epitome of Interrogation and Percontation ••.
    • Epitome of Answers 1.
    • Of Question 2.
    • Of Answer 4.
    The fourth order.
    • Of Categorems, to Metrodorus 10.
    • Of right and supine, to Philarchus ••.
    • Of Conjunctions, to Apollonides 1.
    • To Pasylus, of Categorems 4.
    The fifth order.
    • Of the five cases 1.
    • Of expressions defined according to the subject 1.
    • Of Assimilation, to Stesagoras 2.
    • Of Appellatives, 2.
    Of the Logicall place concerning words, and their reasons, the first order.
    • Of singular and plurall expressions 6.
    • Of Words, to Sosigenes and Alexander 5.
    • Of the anomaly of Words; to Dion 4.
    • Of Sorites pertaining to voice 3.
    • Of Soloecismes, to Dionysius 1.
    • Of unusuall speech 1.
    • Words, to Dionysius 1.
    The second order.
    • Of the elements of speech 5.
    • Of the syntax of things said 4.
    • Of the syntax and elements of speech, to Philip 3.

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    • Of the elements of speech, to Nicias 1.
    • Of relative speech 1.
    The third order.
    • Of not-dividents 2.
    • Of Amphibolies, to Apollas 4.
    • Of Tropicall Amphibolies 1.
    • Of connex Tropicall Amphibolies 2.
    • Upon Panthoedus, of Amphibolies 2.
    • Introduction to Amphiboly 5.
    • Epitome of Amphibolies, to Epicrates 1.
    • Connex to the Introduction of Amphibolies 2.
    Of Logicall place concerning Reasons and Moods, the first order.
    • The Art of Reasons and Moods, to Dioscorides 5.
    • Of Reasons 3.
    • Of the composition of Moods, to Stesagoras 2.
    • Comparison of tropicall Axioms 1.
    • Of reciprocall Reasons and connex 1.
    • To Agatho, or of sequent problems 1.
    • Of Inferences, to Aristagoras 1.
    • Of placing the same reason in diverse Moods 1.
    • Against those who oppose that the same reason may be plated in syllogistick and not syllogistick Moods 2.
    • Against those who oppose the reduction of Syllogismes 3.
    • Against Philo's book of Moods, to Timostratus 1.
    • Logicall conjuncts, to Timocrates and Philomathes.
    • Upon Reasons and Moods 1.
    The second order.
    • Of conclusive Reasons, to Zeno 1.
    • Of first indemonstrable Syllogismes, to Zeno 1.
    • Of Reduction of Syllogismes 1.
    • Of redundant Syllogismes, to Pasylus 2.
    • Theorems of Soloecismes 1.
    • Syllogistick Introductions, to Zeno 1.
    • Introductions to Moods, to Zeno 3.
    • Of Syllogismes false in figure 5.
    • Syllogistick reasons by reduction in indemonstrables 1.
    • Tropicall Questions to Zeno and Philomathes (suspected to be spurious) 1.
    The third order.
    • Of coincident reasons, to Athenades 1. spurious.
    • Coincident reasons as to the medium 3. spurious.
    • Of Aminius's disjunctions 1.

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      • The fourth Order.
      • Of Hypotheses to Meleager 3.
      • Hypothetick reasons in Law, to Meleager 1.
      • Hypothetick Reasons for introduction 2.
      • Hypothetick reasons of Theorems 2.
      • Solution of Hedyllus's Hypotheticks 2.
      • Solution of Alexander's Hypotheticks 3. Spurious.
      • Of expositions, to Leodamas 1.
      The fift order.
      • Of introduction to the lying reason, to Aristocreon 1.
      • Lying reasons to the Introduction 1.
      • Of the lying reason, to Aristocreon 6.
      The sixt order.
      • Against those who think true and false are one, 1.
      • Against those who dissolve the lying Reason by distinction 2:
      • Demonstration, that infinites are not to be divided 1.
      • Upon that which hath been said against the division of infi∣nites, to Pasylus 3.
      • Solutions according to the Antients, to Dioscorides 1.
      • Of the solution of the lying reason to Aristocreon 3.
      • Solution of Hedyllus's Hypotheticks, to Aristocreon and Apollas.
      The seventh Order.
      • Against those who say the lying reason hath false sumpti∣ons 1.
      • Of the negative, to Aristocreon 2.
      • Negative Reasons, to Gymnasias 1.
      • Of the diminutive reason, to Stesagoras 2.
      • Of opinionative and quiescent reasons, to Onetor 2.
      • Of the veiled reason, to Aristobulus 2.
      • Of the occult reason, to Athenades 1.
      The eighth Order.
      • Of the Nullity, to Menecrates 8.
      • Of reasons consisting of indefinite and definite, to Pasylus 2.
      • Of the Nullity to Epicrates 1.
      The ninth Order.
      • Of Sophismes to Heraclides and Pollis 2.
      • Of insoluble dialectick reasons to Dioscorides 5.
      • Against Arcesilaus's method, to Sphaerus 1.
      The tenth order.
      • Against Custom, to Metrodorus 6.

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      • Of the Logicall place; besides these four differences, there are dispersed, not containing in the body of Logical Questions, 39.
      • Of the Ethick Place, for direction of morall notions, the First Order.
      • Description of speech, to Theoporus 1.
      • Morall Theses 1.
      • Probable sumptions for Doctrines, to Philomathes 3.
      • Definitions of civill person, to Metrodorus 2.
      • Definitions of wicked persons, to Metrodorus 2.
      • Definitions of mean persons, to Metrodorus 2.
      • Generall Definitions, to Metrodorus 7.
      • Definitions of other arts, to Metrodorus 2.
      The second Order.
      • Of things like, to Aristocles 3.
      • Of Definitions, to Metrodorus 7.
      The third Order.
      • Of things not rightly objected against Definitions, to Laoda∣mas 7.
      • Probables for Definitions, to Dioscorides.
      • Of Species and Genus, to Gorgippides 2.
      • Of Divisions 1.
      • Of Contraries, to Dionysius 2.
      • Probables for Divisions, genus's and species.
      • Of Contraries 1.
      The fourth Order.
      • Of Etymologicks, to Diocles 6
      • Etymologicks, to Diocles 4.
      The fift Order.
      • Of Proverbs, to Zenodotus 2.
      • Of Poems, to Philomathes 1.
      • How Poems must be heard 2.
      • Against Criticks, to Diodorus 1.
      Of the morall place of common speeches, accor∣ding to Arts and Vertue: The first Order.
      • Against Rescriptions, to Timonax 1.
      • How we think and speak singulars 1.
      • Of notions, to Laodamas 2.
      • Of Suspition, to Pythonax 2.

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      • Demonstrations that a wise man doth not opinionate 1.
      • Of Comprehension and Science, and ignorance 4.
      • Of Speech 2.
      • Of the use of Speech, to Leptines.
      The second Order.
      • That the Antients approved Dialectick with Demonstration, to
      • Zeno 2.
      • Of Dialectick; to Aristocreon 4.
      • Upon the objections against Dialectick 3.
      • Of Rhetorick, to Dioscorides 4.
      The third Order.
      • Of habitude, to Cleon 3.
      • Of art and sloth, to Aristocreon 4.
      • Of the difference of Vertues, to Diodorus.
      • What vertues are 1.
      • Of vertues, to Pollis.
      Of the morall place concerning Good and Ill; the first Order.
      • Of Honesty and pleasure, to Aristocreon 10.
      • Demonstration, that Pleasure is not the chief end 4.
      • Demonstration, that pleasure is not good 4,
      • Of those which are said********

      Thus concludes the seventh Book of Laertius, and who seeth not that the last of these titles is defective, and moreover that the rest of the Orders, concerning this place of Good and Ill, (whereof this is but the first) are wanting. Doubtlesse the end of this book is imperfect, and wanteth, if not the lives of any Stoicall Philo∣sophers, who succeeded Chrysippus (whereof he mentions Zeno and others else where) yet at least a considerable part of his Cata∣logue, containing the rest of his Ethick writings and all his Phy∣sick, many of which are elsewhere cited even by Laertius himself, which as the learned Casau••on had observed, he would not have ascribed to Laertius's neglect that Chrysippus's book of Lawes is not mentioned. Of his Ethick writings, besides those here named, were these,

      • a 1.1 Of Laws.
      • b 1.2 Introduction to the consideration of things good or ill.
      • c 1.3 Of Honest.
      • d 1.4 Of Consent.
      • e 1.5 Of things expetible in themselves.
      • f 1.6 Of things not expetible in themselves.
      • g 1.7 Of Politick.
      • h 1.8 Of ends.

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      To Physick belong these.

      The number of all his writings, according to Laertius, was 705. He wrote so much, that he had often occasion to treat upon the same subject, and setting down whatsoever came into his minde, he often corrected and enlarged it by the testimonies of others; whence having in one book inserted all Euripides's Me∣dea, one having the book in his hand, answer'd another that asked him what book it was, It is Chrysippus's Medea. And Apol∣lodorus the Athenian, in his collection of Doctrines, asserting, that Epicurus had written many books upon his own strength, with∣out using the testimonies of others, and that he therein far excee∣ded Chrysippus, addes these words; For if a man should take out of Chrysippus's writings all that belongs to other men, he would leave the paper blank.

      Seneca gives this censure of him:q 1.39 He is most subtle and acute, penetrating into the depth of truth. He speaks to the thing that is

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      to be done, and useth no more words then are necessary to the understanding thereof; but addes, that hisr 1.40 acutenesse being too fine, is many times blunted, and retorted upon it selfe; even when he seemes to have done something, he only pricks, not pierceth.

      s 1.41 Some there are who inveigh against him, as one that wrote many obscene things, not sit to be spoken, as in his Commentary of the antient Physiologists, what he writes concerning Iupiter and Iuno is obscenely feigned, delivering that in 600 Paragraphs, which the most impudent person would not have committed to writing; for, say they, he hath related the story most unhand∣somly, and though he prais'd it as naturall, yet it becommeth Curtezans rather then Gods.

      Moreover what he saith of those that writ of Tables is false, not to be found neither in Polemo, nor Hipsicrates, nor Antigonus, but forged by himselfe.

      In his book of a Commonwealth, he allowes marriage with a mother and a daughter, and repeats the same in the beginning of his book, Concerning things expetible in themselves.

      In his third book of Iustice, extending to a thousand Para∣graphs, he advised to feed upon the very dead.

      In his second book of Life and Transaction, he affirmeth, a wise man ought to take care to provide himselfe food; but to what end must he provide himselfe food? for Livelyhood? Life is an indifferent. For Pleasure? Pleasure also is indifferent. For Vertue? that is selfe-sufficient for Beatitude. Such kinds of acquisition of wealth are very ridiculous. If they proceed from a King, there is a necessitie of complying with him; if from a friend, that friendship is veniall; if from wisdome, that wisdome is merce∣nary. For these things, saith Laertius, some have inveigh'd a∣gainst him.

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