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Laws 661b
Loeb Translation:
>Men say that the chief good is health, beauty the second, wealth the third ; and they call countless other things "goods"—such as sharpness of sight and hearing, and quickness in perceiving all the objects of sense ; being a king, too, and doing exactly as you please ; and to possess the whole of these goods and become on the spot an immortal, that, as they say, is the crown and top of all felicity.
Trevor J. Saunders translation (Penguin and Cooper Complete Works):
>The list goes on indefinitely: keen sight and hearing, and acute perception of all the objects of sensation; being a dictator and doing whatever you like; and the seventh heaven is supposed to be reached when one has achieved all this and is made immortal without further ado.
Thomas L. Pangle's Laws:
>there are said to be ten thousand other goods: sharp sight/hearing, and good percep- 66ib tion of all the objects of the senses; and then, by becoming a tyrant, to do whatever one desires; and finally the perfection of complete blessedness, which is to possess all these things and then to become immortal, as quickly as possible.

>top of all felicity
>the seventh heaven
>finally the perfection of complete blessedness
Does anyone know what the Greek says?

Proclus Elements of Theology
then when you read Leibnoza you find nothing original except where idiosyncratic autism has lead them to ontological dead ends

>>14931064
>How does manifoldness issue from Unity? Unity is everywhere; for there is no place where it is not; therefore it fills everything. By Him exists manifoldness; or rather, it is by Him that all things exist. If the One were only everywhere, He would simply be all things; but, as, besides, He is nowhere, all things exist by Him, because He is everywhere; but simultaneously all things are distinct from Him, because He is nowhere. Why then is Unity not only everywhere, but also nowhere? The reason is, that Unity must be above all things, He must fill everything, and produce everything, without being all that He produces.

For History:
>Boorstin's 'Knowledge Trilogy', specifically 'The Discoverers'.
For Philosophy:
>Montaigne Complete Works (everyman's).
For Metaphysics:
>Plato—Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Republic, Parmenides.
For Logic:
>Aristotle's - Organon.
Physics (assuming you went to school up to and including college):
>Penrose' Road to Reality.
Theology:
>Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism
>The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea