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Porphyry's and Life
According to the fourth chapter of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, preserving the titles he assigned them and the corresponding treatise number in the Enneads.
* L440 ) Volume I. Porphyry's Life of Plotinus.
In the preface to his work On Ends, which is preserved in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, Longinus himself relates that from his early age he made many journeys with his parents, that he visited many countries and became acquainted with all those who at the time enjoyed a great reputation as philosophers, among whom the most illustrious were Ammonius Saccas, Origen the Pagan, Plotinus, and Amelius.
Stobaeus, in his Eclogae, preserves a fragment of his writings ; further extracts survive in the form of quotations in Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras and Simplicius's commentary on Aristotle's Physics.

Porphyry's and .
A commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge may also be his, but it is somewhat corrupt and contains later interpolations.
Most details of his life come from the fragments left from Porphyry's writings.
Of note here is that while Plotinus ' student Porphyry names Christianity specifically in Porphyry's own works, and Plotinus is to have been a known associate of the Christian Origen, none of Plotinus ' works mention Christ or Christianity.
Jerome refuted Porphyry's application of the little horn of chapter seven to Antiochus.
However, in Porphyry's Greek text De Abstinentia (« Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων »), there is a reference to the now-lost histories of the Mithraic mysteries by Euboulus and Pallas, the wording of which suggests that these authors treated the name " Mithra " as an indeclinable foreign word.
The problem was introduced to the medieval world by Boethius, by his translation of Porphyry's Isagoge.
Much of the biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus ' Enneads.
* On tonoi ( Περὶ τόνων ): a brief quotation in Porphyry's commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics, p. 78 Düring ( not edited by Wehrli )
Porphyry's edition does not follow the chronological order in which Enneads were written ( see Chronological Listing below ), but responds to a plan of study which leads the learner from subjects related to his own affairs to subjects concerning the uttermost principles of the universe.
He defends the Old Testament against the school of Porphyry, and when he declares it to be interpolated, he is using Porphyry's own higher criticism.
Porphyry's parents were Phoenician, and he was born Malchus (" king ") in Tyre.
Boethius ' Isagoge, a Latin translation of Porphyry's " Introduction ", became a standard medieval textbook in European schools and universities, which set the stage for medieval philosophical-theological developments of logic and the problem of universals.
To this day, taxonomy benefits from concepts in Porphyry's Tree, in classifying living organisms: see cladistics.
Porphyry's discussion of accident sparked a long-running debate on the application of accident and essence.
Porphyry's identification of the Book of Daniel as the work of a writer in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes ( 2nd century BC ), is given by Jerome.
* Porphyry's Introduction.
The scholastic classification, obtained from Boëthius's Latin version of Porphyry's Isagoge, modified Aristotle's by substituting species ( eidos ) for definition.
* ( Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge ), a treatise on logic.
From Porphyry's writings, scholars have also learned that Melissa was the name of the moon goddess Artemis and the goddess who took suffering away from mothers giving birth.

Letter and Wife
For example, in Chinese, the first line of Li Po's ( called " Rihaku " by Fenollosa's Japanese informants ) poem The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter is a spare, direct juxtaposition of 5 characters that appear in Fenollosa's notes as mistress hair first cover browIn his resulting 1915 Cathay, Pound rendered this in simple English as While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
On the eve of battle, he wrote the legendary " A Letter to My Wife " ( 與妻訣別書 ), later to be considered as a masterpiece in Chinese literature.
Other appearances on Broadway included: W. Somerset Maugham's The Letter ( 1927 ), Sidney Howard's The Alien Corn ( 1933 ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1934 ), Maxwell Anderson's The Wingless Victory ( 1936 ), S. N. Behrman's No Time for Comedy ( 1939 ), a Tony Award-winning Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra ( 1947 ), and a revival of Maugham's The Constant Wife ( 1951 ).

Letter and Concerning
Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.
The bulk of Locke's publishing took place upon his return from exilehis aforementioned Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the Two Treatises of Civil Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration all appearing in quick succession.
* A Letter Concerning Toleration
In 1712, the Letter Concerning Design of Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, circulated in manuscript.
It was Locke, who, in his Letter Concerning Toleration, defined the state in purely secular terms: " The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests.
# John Locke – Letter Concerning Toleration ; Of Civil Government ; Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Thoughts Concerning Education
* A Letter of Meric Casaubon to Peter Du Moulin Concerning Natural Experimental Philosophie ( 1669 ).
* Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury-A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm ( contra radical Protestantism )
" In A Letter Concerning Toleration, he wrote that the magistrate's power was limited to preserving a person's " civil interest ," which he described as " life, liberty, health, and indolency of body ; and the possession of outward things.
English philosopher John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) published A Letter Concerning Toleration in 1689.
Each régime followed these actions with formal ideological statements ; in June 1963, the PRC published The Chinese Communist Party ’ s Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement, and the USSR replied with an Open Letter of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ; these were the final, formal communications between the two Communist parties.
# John Locke – A Letter Concerning Toleration ; Of Civil Government ; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Some Thoughts Concerning Education
* Letter to a Godchild: Concerning Faith ( 2006 )
** A Letter Concerning Toleration
Title page of the first edition of A Letter Concerning Toleration.
A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689.
* Contains the Letter Concerning Toleration, slightly modified for easier reading
# REDIRECT A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke prominently cited it in his A Letter Concerning Toleration.

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