Thomas Taylor

Matérias

• Proclo: dæmon
  24 de março de 2022, por Cardoso de Castro

  Excerto de Comentário de Proclus ao Primeiro Alcibíades, tr. Thomas Taylor
  “Let us now speak in the first place concerning dæmons in general; in the next place, concerning those that are allotted us in common; and, in the third place, concerning the dæmon of Socrates. For it is always requisite that demonstrations should begin from things more universal, and proceed from these as far as to individuals. For this mode of proceeding is natural, and is more adapted to science. Daemons (…)

• Thomas Taylor (CWP:184-186) – assemelhar-se a Deus
  29 de janeiro de 2022, por Cardoso de Castro

  The endeavour is not to be without sin, but to be a God. That is, to be a God according to a similitude to divinity itself. For through this similitude, good men are also called by Plato Gods. Hence, too, Empedocles says of himself, " Farewell, no mortal, but a God am I."
  From this magnificent conception of human nature by the Pythagoreans and Plato, considered according to its true condition, the lofty language of the Stoics about their wise man was doubtless derived. For they assert of (…)

• Thomas Taylor: Fábula «Cupido e Psique»
  22 de julho de 2023, por Cardoso de Castro

  Original
  Introduction
  THE following well-known fable is extracted from the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, a work replete with elegance and erudition, in which the marvellous and mystic are happily combined with historical precision, and the whole of which is composed in a style inimitably glowing and diffuse.
  Its author was by birth an African, and, by profession, a Platonic philosopher. From the account which he gives of himself, it appears most probable that he lived in the times of (…)