Damascius' Problems and solutions concerning first principles / translated from the Greek by Sara Ahbel-Rappe.

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Contents -- Prolegomenon -- Note on the Translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to the Life and Philosophy of Damascius -- TRANSLATION OF DAMASCIUS� PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS CONCERNING FIRST PRINCIPLES -- PART ONE. ON THE INEFFABLE -- SECTION I. ON THE INEFFABLE -- Chapter 1. On the Ineffable and Its Relationship to All Things -- Chapter 2. The Transcendence of the Ineffable -- Chapter 3. Our Affinity with the Ineffable -- Chapter 4. Speculation Concerning the Ineffable -- Chapter 5. On Plato and the Language of Metaphysics

Chapter 6. That the One Is UnknowableChapter 7. On the Complete Overturning of All Discourse Concerning the Ineffable -- Chapter 8. Three Questions Concerning the Ineffable qua Its Status as First Principle -- SECTION II. ASCENT TO THE FIRST PRINCIPLE -- Chapter 9. First Method: Self-Sufficiency as the Criterion -- Chapter 10. Nature as a First Principle -- Chapter 11. The Irrational Soul -- Chapter 12. The Rational Soul and Intellect -- Chapter 13. The One Is Not the First Principle -- Chapter 14. Second Method of Ascent: From the Potential to the Actual

Chapter 15. Digression: Does Irrational Soul Move Itself?Chapter 16. Irrational Soul and the Living Being -- Chapter 17. Self-Motion Defined -- Chapter 18. The Degrees and Kinds of Self-Motion -- Chapter 19. The Self-Mover is not the First Principle -- Chapter 20. Intellect is Not the First Principle -- Chapter 21. Being Is Not the First Principle -- Chapter 22. The One as the First Principle -- Chapter 23. Third Method of Ascent: The World as First Principle -- Chapter 24. The Unmanifest Diacosm Is Not the First Principle -- PART TWO. ON THE ONE

SECTION III. ON THE ONE AND ON KNOWLEDGE OF THE ONEChapter 25. Is There a Principle That Mediates between the One and the Ineffable? -- Chapter 26. The One Cannot Be Known -- Chapter 27. Cognitive Reversion Does Not Bring about Knowledge of the One -- Chapter 28. Excursus on Multiplicity -- Chapter 29. Unitary Knowledge -- SECTION IV. ON THE ONE AND ALL THINGS -- Chapter 30. Three Questions and Answer to the Third Question -- Chapter 31. Answer to the Second Question, Is the One All Things Equally? -- Chapter 32. Answer to the First Question, How Is the One All Things?

Chapter 33. The One-All Is Both All-Inclusive and DeterminateSECTION V. ON PROCESSION FROM THE ONE -- Chapter 34. On the First Differentiation -- Chapter 35. On the Origin of Distinction -- Chapter 36. The One Is Neither In All Things Nor Is It Before All Things -- SECTION VI. THE CAUSALITY OF THE ONE -- Chapter 37. Questions about the Cause of Differentiation -- Chapter 38. Chaldean and Iamblichean Language Concerning the Cause of Differentiation from the One -- Chapter 39. Doctrine of the Chaldeans Applied to the One�s Procession

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