02842cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000060010610000130011224500290012526400510015430000470020533600260025233700260027833800360030450000310034050801560037152015580052753400530208565300540213865300320219265300410222465300410226565300400230670000310234685600600237785600430243777014UtSlPG20260610134801.0mcr n260607r20251823utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aB1 aPorphyry10aSelect works of Porphyry 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-10-08  aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Select works of Porphyry :  Containing his four books on abstinence from animal…." by Porphyry is a collection of philosophical treatises written in the 3rd century. It gathers his ethical case for abstaining from animal food, an allegorical interpretation of Homer’s Cave of the Nymphs, and brief auxiliaries for understanding intelligible realities, here presented in English with scholarly framing. The focus is Neoplatonic ethics and metaphysics aimed at a contemplative, purified life, with a translator’s appendix elaborating the Odyssey’s allegory.  The opening of the volume presents a translator’s introduction that sketches Porphyry’s life, his role in transmitting and clarifying Platonism, and outlines the contents and aims of the included works. Then Book I of On Abstinence begins as a letter rebuking a friend (Firmus) for returning to meat-eating; Porphyry announces that he will answer the strongest objections—from Stoics, Peripatetics, Epicureans, and a polemicist named Clodius—and he summarizes their claims about justice, utility, law, sacrifice, medicine, population, and transmigration. He then marks off his true audience—those seeking a contemplative life—and argues that happiness is living according to intellect, which requires withdrawing from the senses and passions (especially those inflamed by diet), cultivating solitude and moderation, and choosing light, simple foods so the soul loosens its bond to the body and turns upward to intelligible being. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Thomas Rodd, 1823  aOdysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)  aSoul -- Early works to 1800  aMind and body -- Early works to 1800  aVegetarianism -- Early works to 1800  aNeoplatonism -- Early works to 18001 aTaylor, Thomas,d1758-18354 uhttps://archive.org/details/b28747197/page/n21/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77014