Philosophy as a way of life

12 Proclus, In Rempublicam, vol. 2, p. 1 1 3, 20fT Kroll; French trans. A.-J. Festugiere 1 970, vol. 3, p. 58.

1 3 Cf. Proclus, In Rempublicam, p. 1 13, 6 Kroll.

14 Ibid, p. 1 1 4, I Kroll. Cf. F. Wehrli, Die Schute des Aristoteles, vol. 3, Basel 1948, fragment 8, pp. 1 1 , 47-9.

IS Plutarch, De sera numinis vintlicta, 22, S63b-8a.

16 Cf. above, Meditatio11s.

1 7 Plato, Phaetlo, 67c.

18 Plato, Theaetttus, 173c.

19 Plato, Republir, 486a.

20 Plato, Timaeus, 90c. It is instructive to compare this text with the description of Makarie in Goethe's Wilhelm Meis1ers Apprenticeship and Travels (3, 1 5, in Goethes Werke, HA, vol. 8, p. 449): "Makarie's relationship to our solar system can scarcely be described. Not only does she preserve and observe it in her mind, her spirit and imagination, but she makes herself as it were a part of it. She pictures herself swept away into the celestial spheres, but in a highly peculiar way: since her childhood, she has been wandering around the sun . . • in a spiral, getting farther and farther away from the middle point and circling ever closer to the outermost regions."

21 Plato, Phaedrus, 270a-c.

22 Lucretius, On the Nature rif Thi11gs, 2, 1044.

23 Ibid, 2, 72-7.

24 Ibid, 2, 7+-S.

25 [The French Romantic poet Andre Chenier, born 1762 in Constantinople, was guillotined during the French Revolution on July 25, 1 794. - Trans.]