The soul
What the soul is, whether it survives death, and how it knows: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and the Fathers.
Key terms: ψυχή (psyche), πνεῦμα (pneuma), anima, spiritus, νοῦς (nous) — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.
- Pistis Sophia
- The Golden Ass
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- On the Soul (De Anima)
- Physics
- The Consolation of Philosophy
- Against Eunomius
- Funeral Oration on Meletius
- Letters
- Life of St. Macrina
- On Virginity
- On the Baptism of Christ
- On the Faith
- On the Making of Man
- The Great Catechism
- Life of Pythagoras
- On the Mysteries
- De Rerum Natura
- Fragments
- Commentary on the Gospel of John (partial: Books I, II, IV, V, VI, X)
- Contra Celsum
- De Principiis (On First Principles)
- Letter to Africanus
- Letter to Gregory Thaumaturgus
- Philocalia (selections from Origen's works)
- Alcibiades I
- Alcibiades II
- Apology
- Charmides
- Cleitophon
- Cratylus
- Critias
- Crito
- Epinomis
- Euthydemus
- Euthyphro
- Gorgias
- Hipparchus
- Hippias Major
- Hippias Minor
- Ion
- Laches
- Laws
- Letters
- Lovers
- Lysis
- Menexenus
- Meno
- Minos
- Parmenides
- Phaedo
- Phaedrus
- Philebus
- Protagoras
- Republic
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Symposium
- Theaetetus
- Theages
- Timaeus
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- Consolation to His Wife
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- Isis and Osiris
- On Controlling Anger
- On Fortune
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
- On the Education of Children
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- Platonic Questions
- Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
- Letter to Marcella
- Life of Plotinus
- Life of Pythagoras
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- On the Cave of the Nymphs
- Porphyry, Against the Christians — fragments via Eusebius
- Sententiae: Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures
- Letters to Lucilius
- Medea
- On Tranquility of Mind
- On the Happy Life
- On the Shortness of Life
- Phaedra
- Valentinus — fragments
Anonymous (Coptic Gnostic)
Apuleius
Aristotle
Boethius
Gregory of Nyssa
Iamblichus
Lucretius
Numenius of Apamea
Origen
Plato
Plotinus
Plutarch
Porphyry
Seneca
Valentinus
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