Saint John of Damascus: Writings (The Fathers of the Church, 37)

476 Pages·1958·13.722 MB·English

by  John of Damascus, Frederic Henry Chase

THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
VOLUME 37
THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
EDITORIAL BOARD
Hermigild Dressler, O.F.M.
Quincy College
Editorial Director
Robert P. Russell, O.S.A. Thomas P. Halton
V illanova University The Catholic University of America
Robert Sider Sister M. Josephine Brennan, I.H.M.
Dickinson College Marywo'od College
Richard Talaska
Editorial Assistant
FORMER EDITORIAL DIRECTORS
Ludwig Schopp, Roy J. Deferrari, Bernard M. Peebles
SAINT JOHN OF
'~DAMASCUS
WRITINGS
Translated by
'FREDERIC H. CHASE, JR.
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
Washington, D.C.
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JOHN J. CONNELLY, S.T.D.
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+ RICHARD J. CUSHING
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agree with the contents, opinions, or statements expressed.
Copyright © 1958
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
All rights reserved
Reprinted 1970, 1981
First short-run reprint 1999
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 59-792
ISBN 0-8132-0968-4
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION • . • • • • v
THE FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE
Preface . • . . • . • S
The Philosophical Chapters
1 On Know ledge 7
2 What the Purpose of This Work Is 10
3 On Philosophy. • . • • . . . 11
4 On Being, Substance, and Accident. 13
5 On Tenus . . • . . • . • . 15
6 On Division . . . • . . • . 20
7 On That Which Is by Nature Prior. 25
8 On Definition 26
9 On Genus 29
10 On Species . 31
11 On Individual 41
12 On Difference 41
13 On Accident 43
14 On Property 44
15 On Predicates 45
16 On Univocal and Equivocal Predication. 46
17 On the Predication of the Essence of a Thing and
on That of Its Sort . . . . • . . 48
18 What the Five Terms Have in Common and in
What They Differ . . • . . 49
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19 What Genus and Difference Have in Common and
in What They Differ. . • • . • . • • • 50
20 What Genus and Species Have in Common and in
What They Differ. . • • • • • . • • • • 50
21 What Genus and Property Have in Common and
in What They Differ. • • . • • • • • • 51
22 What Genus and Accident Have in Common and
in What They Differ. • . • .• •••• 51
23 What Difference and Species Have in Common
and in What They Differ. . • • . • • • • 52
24 What Difference and Property Have in Common
and in What They Differ. • • • • • • • • 52
25 What Difference and Accident Have in Common
and in What They Differ. . • • • • . • • 52
26 What Species and Property Have in Common and
in What They Differ. . . . • • • • . • • 53
27 What Species and Accident Have in Common and
in What They Differ. •• •••••• 54
28 What Property and Inseparable Accident Have in
Common and in What They Differ. . • • • 54
29 On Hypostasis, Enhypostaton, and Anhypostaton 54
30 On Substance, Nature, and Form; as Well as on
Individual, Person, and Hypostasis. 55
31 On Equivocals . 56
32 On Univocals .•..• 59
33 On Mutinominals . ..••.• 59
34 On Things Which Are Different and on
Heteronymus Things. . . . . . 60
35 On Conjugates. .. ...... 60
36 On the Ten Most General Genera. . . 61
37 On Things Which are Generically the Same and
Specifically the Same; and on Things Which Are
Generically Different, Specifically Different and
Numerically Different .••..••. 62
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38 On Being in Something. • 63
39 Again on Substance • 64
40 On Nature • 65
41 On Form •. 65
42 On Hypostasis 66
43 On Person 67
44 On Enhypostaton 68
45 On Anhypostaton . 69
46 The Division of Being . 69
47 The Division of Substance 70
48 Again on Things Which Are Generically the Same
and Specifically the Same; and on Things Which
Are Generically Different and Specifically Different;
and on Things Which Are Hypostaticaly the Same
and Things Which Are Numerically Different. • 72
49 On Quantum and Quality. ••• 77
50 On Relatives .•.. • 80
51 On 'Being of Such a Sort' and Quality. 80
52 On Action and Passion . 84
53 On Position . 86
54 On Place. ••• 87
55 On Time. 87
56 On Having, or State . 87
57 On Opposites • . . 88
58 On Habit and Privation 90
59 On Prior and Posterior . 91
60 On the Simultaneous. 93
61 On Motion . 94
62 On Having • 96
63 On Statement, Negation, and Affirmation. 97
64 On Term, Premise, and Syllogism. 98
65 Various Definitions ., .•• 99
66 Further on the Hypostatic Union. 104
67 Six Definitions of Philosophy . 105
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68 On the Four Dialectical Methods. • 107
Explanation of Expressions • • • • 108
ON HERESIES
I Barbarism · · · · · · · · 111
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2 Scythism · · · · · · 111
3 Hellenism · · · · · 111
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4 Judaism · 113
5 The Pythagoreans, or Peripatetics. 113
6 The Platonists . IU
7 The Stoics · · · · · · 114
8 The Epicureans 114
9 Samaritanism 114
10 The Gorthenes . · · · · · 114
11 The Sebyaeans . · 114
12 The Essenes • · · · · · 114
13 The Dosthenes • 114
14 The Scribes . · 115
15 The Pharisees . 115
16 The Sadduccees 115
17 The Hemerobaptists . · 116
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18 The Ossenes . · · · 116
19 The N asaraeans 116
20 The Herodians . 116
21 The Simonians . 116
22 The Menandrianists 117
23 The Saturnilians 117
24 The Basilidians 117
25 The Nicolaitans 117
26 The Gnostics 118
27 The Carpocratians 118
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28 The Cerinthians · · · 118
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29 The N azarenes • · · · · · · · · · · 119
80 The Ebionites • · · · · · · · · · · 119
31 The Valentinians . 119
32 The Secundians · · · · · 119
33 The Ptolemaeans . · · · · 120
S4 The Marcoseans · · · · · · · · · · 120
35 The Colarbasaeans · · · · 120
36 The Heracleonites 120
37 The Ophites · · · · · · 121
38 The Cainites 121
39 The Sethians · · · · · · 121
40 The Archontics 121
41 The Cerdonians 121
42 The Marcionites · · · · · · 121
43 The Lucianists . 122
44 The Apellians . 122
45 The Severians • 122
46 The Tatianists • · · · · 123
47 The Encratites . · · · · 123
48 The Cataphrygians, or Montanists, or Ascodrugites 123
49 The Pepuzians, or Quintillians . 123
50 The Quartodecimans . · · · · 124
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51 The Alogians · · · · · · 124
52 The Adamians . · · · · · 124
53 The Sampsaeans, or Elkesaites 124
54 The Theodotians . · · 124
55 The Melchisedechians 125
56 The Bardesanites 125
57 The N oetians 125
58 The Valesians • · · · · 125
59 The Cathari . · · · · 125
60 The Angelici 126
61 The Apostolici . ' 126
62 The Sabellians. · 126
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63 The Origenians 126
64 Other Origenians 126
65 The Paulianists 126
66 The Manichaeans • 127
67 The Hieracites. • 127
68 The Meletians. . 127
69 The Arians, or Ariomanites, or Diatomites. 127
70 The Audians 128
71 The Photinians 128
72 The Marcellians 128
73 The Semiarians 128
74 The Pneumatochi. 129
75 The Aerians. • 129
76 The Aetians, or Anomaeans . 130
77 The Dimoerites, or Apollinarists 131
78 The Antidicomarianites 131
79 The Collyridians.. 131
80 The Massalians, or Euchites . 133
81 The Nestorians .. 138
82 The Eutychians •• • 138
83 The Egyptians, or Schematics, or Monophysites. 138
84 The Aphthartodocetae. • 148
85 The Agnoetae, or Themistians . 148
86 The Barsanouphites, or Semidalites 149
87 The Hicetae .' • 149
88 The Gnosimachi . 149
89 The Heliotropites 149
90 The Thnetopsychites 150
91 The Agonyclites 150
92 The Theocatagonostae, or Blasphemers 150
93 The Christolytae 150
94 The Ethnophrones 150
95 The Donatists 150
96 The Ethicoproscoptae 151
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