/lit/ - Literature

>Genera differ from what is predicated of only one item in that they are predicated of several items. Again, they differ from what is predicated of several items— from species because species, even if they are predicated of several items, are predicated of items which differ not in species but in number. Thus man, being a species, is predicated of Socrates and of Plato, who differ from one another not in species but in number, whereas animal, being a genus, is predicated of man and of cow and of horse, which differ from one another not only in number but also in species.

What does number mean here? Is it like the specific 'this-ness' of the same things, like how human noses are all sort of different but fundamentally the same?

What do you think about this work and what translation is the best? So far I've seen two circulating on the internet, that of R. Joseph Hoffmann and that of Robert M. Berchman.

I know about the scraps of "Against the Christians" but I was wondering if there were any similar more complete works on the subject.

What was written in Porphyry's "Against the Christians"? Do you think it would have led to the sooner destruction of Christianity if it hadn't been erased from history?

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>>16200390
>But with respect to other animals who do not at all act unjustly, and are not naturally impelled to injure us, it is certainly unjust to destroy and murder them, no otherwise than it would be to slay men who are not iniquitous. And this seems to evince that the justice between us and other animals does not arise from some of them being naturally noxious and malefic, but others not, as is also the case with respect to men

> Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
What did Porphyry mean by this?

>>15187464
It is Nature's vengeance for man's transgression against Her. We have raped the mother that gave us life.

>>15067731
>Vegetarian
What animals products can you consume by acting in accordance with the innocent beings ends?
I'm not going to post the entire conclusion of the naturalism section and the final conclusion desu. Read it.
>The physical cosmos arises out of pre-cosmic chaos through the activity of the World-soul, which becomes refracted into myriads of individual souls – namely, those of the celestial beings (gods/angels), humans, animals, and plants...
>>15067740
Not my thread, someone just asked about coronavirus so I answered.

>>15043826
Man forcing himself onto nature is brought the virus to his soul. It only takes reason to understand that murder of the innocent in a sin. Only the unreasonable and irrational refuse to accept such a simple turth.

>"If one has killed an animal, one must himself be killed by that same animal. This is called mamsa. Mam means “me,” and sa means “he.” As I am eating an animal, that animal will have the opportunity to eat me."