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Seneca The Younger, Letters, 65.12


nanNow, however, I am searching for the first, the general cause; this must be simple, inasmuch as matter, too, is simple. Do we ask what cause is? It is surely Creative Reason,[9]– in other words, God. For those elements to which you referred are not a great series of independent causes; they all hinge on one alone, and that will be the creative cause.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 54.4, 65.1, 65.4-65.8, 65.10, 65.15-65.16, 65.24 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

2. Seneca The Younger, Troades, 399 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

3. Proclus, In Platonis Timaeum Commentarii, 1.2.1-1.2.8, 1.12.21, 1.143.19-1.143.22, 1.263.20 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

4. Proclus, In Platonis Timaeum Commentarii, 1.2.1-1.2.8, 1.12.21, 1.143.19-1.143.22, 1.263.20 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agnosticism Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158
annihilation Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158
aristotle Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
body,cause Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
cause,five Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
cause,six Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
coulter,j. Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
death,stoicism Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158
euripides Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158
galen Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
gerson,l.p. Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
identity,in stoicism Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158
matter Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
olympiodorus Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
plato Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141; Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158
proclus Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
purification Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
seneca Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141; Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158
soul,purification of' Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
soul-body relationship,translocation Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158
steel,c. Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 141
symmetry arguments Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 158