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Index, with God, of the philosophical chapters of Damascene <Preface-Letter> 1. Concerning knowledge 2. What is the purpose 3. Concerning philosophy 4. Concerning being, substance, and accident 5. Concerning voice 6. Concerning division 7. Concerning that which is prior by nature 8. Concerning definition 9. Concerning genus 10. Concerning species 11. Concerning the individual 12. Concerning difference 13. Concerning accident 14. Concerning property 15. Concerning predicates 16. Concerning synonymous and homonymous predication 17. Concerning subject 18. Concerning the predication in "what it is" and in "of what sort it is" 19. Communalities and differences of the five terms 20. Communality and difference of genus and difference 21. Communality and difference of genus and species 22. Communality and difference of genus and property 23. Communality and difference of genus and accident 24. Communality and difference of difference and species 25. Communality and difference of difference and property 26. Communality and difference of difference and accident 27. Communality and difference of species and property 28. Communality and difference of species and accident 29. Communality and difference of property and inseparable accident 30. Concerning hypostasis, the enhypostatic, and the anhypostatic 31. Concerning substance and nature and form, of the individual and of person and of hypostasis (cf. supra 6) (cf. supra 7) (cf. supra 8) 32. Concerning homonyms 33. Concerning synonyms 34. Concerning polyonyms 35. Concerning others and heteronyms 36. Concerning paronyms 37. Concerning the ten most general genera 38. Concerning those of the same genus and of the same species, and of different genus and of different species, and differing in number 39. Concerning "in something" 40. Concerning substance 41. Concerning nature 42. Concerning form 43. Concerning hypostasis 44. Concerning person 45. Concerning the enhypostatic 46. Concerning the anhypostatic 47. Division of being and of substance 48. Concerning what is a property of substance 49. Further concerning those of the same genus and of the same species, of different genus and of different species, and of the same hypostasis, and differing in number 50. Concerning how much and quantity 51. Concerning relatives 52. Concerning of what sort and quality 53. Concerning acting and being acted upon 54. Concerning position 55. Concerning where 56. Concerning when 57. Concerning having 58. Concerning opposites 59. Concerning state and privation 60. Concerning prior and posterior 61. Concerning "at the same time" 62. Concerning motion 63. Concerning having 64. Concerning proposition, both negation and affirmation 65. Concerning definition and proposition and syllogism 66. There are six definitions of philosophy 67. Concerning the hypostatic union 68. <Various Definitions> <Preface-Letter> To the most devout and God-honored Cosmas, most holy bishop of Maiuma, John the monk. Knowing the narrowness of my intellect and the poverty of my tongue, O blessed ones, I was hesitant to undertake things beyond my power and to dare the impossible like some insolent and audacious man, being suspicious of the danger hanging over those who dare such things. For if Moses, that divine lawgiver, who withdrew from every human spectacle and left behind the tempests of life and wiped away every material appearance and purified the eye of his soul and thenceforth became fit for the vision of God, who was deemed worthy to behold in a bush and in immaterial fire the philanthropic condescension of the Word of God to us and His supernatural incarnation—a fire which, while burning and setting aflame the thornbush and transforming it to its own splendor, did not consume it nor destroy it nor indeed remove it from its own nature—he who was first initiated into the name of Him who is and who truly is above substance, being entrusted by God with the leadership of his kinsmen and fellow tribesmen, called himself of a feeble voice and slow of tongue, as being unable to serve the divine will and bring it to manifestation and to become a mediator between God and men, how could I, who indeed with filth

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Πίναξ σὺν θεῷ τῶν φιλοσόφων κεφαλαίων τοῦ ∆αμασκηνοῦ <Προοίμιον-Ἐπιστολή> αʹ Περὶ γνώσεως βʹ Τίς ὁ σκοπός γʹ Περὶ φιλοσοφίας δʹ Περὶ τοῦ ὄντος οὐσίας τε καὶ συμβεβηκότος εʹ Περὶ φωνῆς ʹ Περὶ διαιρέσεως ζʹ Περὶ τοῦ φύσει προτέρου ηʹ Περὶ ὁρισμοῦ θʹ Περὶ γένους ιʹ Περὶ εἴδους ιαʹ Περὶ ἀτόμου ιβʹ Περὶ διαφορᾶς ιγʹ Περὶ συμβεβηκότος ιδʹ Περὶ ἰδίου ιεʹ Περὶ τῶν κατηγορουμέ νων ιʹ Περὶ συνωνύμου καὶ ὁμω νύμου κατηγορίας ιζʹ Περὶ ὑποκειμένου ιηʹ Περὶ τῆς ἐν τῷ τί ἐστι καὶ τῆς ἐν τῷ ποῖόν τί ἐστι κατηγο ρίας ιθʹ Κοινωνίαι καὶ διαφοραὶ τῶν πέντε φωνῶν κʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ γέ νους καὶ διαφορᾶς καʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ γέ νους καὶ εἴδους κβʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ γέ νους καὶ ἰδίου κγʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ γέ νους καὶ συμβεβηκότος κδʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ διαφορᾶς καὶ εἴδους κεʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ διαφορᾶς καὶ ἰδίου κʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ διαφορᾶς καὶ συμβεβηκό τος κζʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ εἴ δους καὶ ἰδίου κηʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ εἴ δους καὶ συμβεβηκότος κθʹ Κοινωνία καὶ διαφορὰ ἰδίου καὶ ἀχωρίστου συμ βεβηκότος λʹ Περὶ ὑποστάσεως καὶ ἐν υποστάτου καὶ ἀνυποστά του λαʹ Περὶ οὐσίας καὶ φύσεως καὶ μορφῆς ἀτόμου τε καὶ προσώπου καὶ ὑποστά σεως (ῃ. συπρα ʹ) (ῃ. συπρα ζʹ) (ῃ. συπρα ηʹ) λβʹ Περὶ ὁμωνύμων λγʹ Περὶ συνωνύμου λδʹ Περὶ πολυωνύμων λεʹ Περὶ ἑτέρων καὶ ἑτερωνύ μων λʹ Περὶ παρωνύμων λζʹ Περὶ τῶν δέκα γενικωτά των γενῶν ληʹ Περὶ ὁμογενῶν καὶ ὁμοει δῶν ἑτερογενῶν τε καὶ ἑτεροειδῶν καὶ ἀριθμῷ διαφερόντων λθʹ Περὶ τοῦ ἔν τινι μʹ Περὶ οὐσίας μαʹ Περὶ φύσεως μβʹ Περὶ μορφῆς μγʹ Περὶ ὑποστάσεως μδʹ Περὶ προσώπου μεʹ Περὶ ἐνυποστάτου μʹ Περὶ ἀνυποστάτου μζʹ ∆ιαίρεσις τοῦ ὄντος καὶ τῆς οὐσίας μηʹ Περὶ τοῦ τί ὑπάρχει ἴδιον τῆς οὐσίας μθʹ Ἔτι περὶ ὁμογενῶν καὶ ὁμοειδῶν ἑτερογενῶν τε καὶ ἑτεροειδῶν καὶ ὁμο ϋποστάτων καὶ ἀριθμῷ διαφερόντων νʹ Περὶ ποσοῦ καὶ ποσότη τος ναʹ Περὶ τῶν πρός τι νβʹ Περὶ ποιοῦ καὶ ποιότητος νγʹ Περὶ τοῦ ποιεῖν καὶ πά σχειν νδʹ Περὶ τοῦ κεῖσθαι νεʹ Περὶ τῆς ποῦ νʹ Περὶ τῆς ποτέ νζʹ Περὶ τοῦ ἔχειν νηʹ Περὶ ἀντικειμένων νθʹ Περὶ ἕξεως καὶ στερήσεως ξʹ Περὶ προτέρου καὶ ὑστέ ρου ξαʹ Περὶ τοῦ ἅμα ξβʹ Περὶ κινήσεως ξγʹ Περὶ τοῦ ἔχειν ξδʹ Περὶ ἀποφάνσεως ἀποφά σεώς τε καὶ καταφάσεως ξεʹ Περὶ ὅρου καὶ προτάσεως καὶ συλλογισμοῦ ξʹ Ὁρισμοὶ τῆς φιλοσοφίας εἰσὶν ἕξ ξζʹ Περὶ τῆς καθ' ὑπόστασιν ἑνώσεως ξηʹ <Ὅροι διάφοροι> <Προοίμιον-Ἐπιστολή> Τῷ ὁσιωτάτῳ καὶ θεοτιμήτῳ Κοσμᾷ, ἁγιωτάτῳ ἐπισκόπῳ τοῦ Μαιουμᾶ, Ἰωάννης μοναχόσ Τὸ μὲν στενὸν τῆς διανοίας καὶ τὸ ἄπορον τῆς γλώσσης τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ ἐπιστάμενος ὤκνουν, ὦ μακάριοι, τοῖς ὑπὲρ δύναμιν ἐγχειρεῖν καὶ τῶν ἀδυνάτων κατατολμᾶν ὥσπερ τις αὐθάδης καὶ τολμητίας τὸν ἐπηρτημένον τοῖς τὰ τοιαῦτα τολμῶσιν ὑφορώμενος κίνδυνον. Εἰ γὰρ Μωυσῆς, ἐκεῖνος ὁ θεῖος νομοθέτης, ὁ πάσης ἀνθρωπίνης θέας ἀποχωρήσας καὶ τοῦ βίου τὰς τρικυμίας καταλιπὼν καὶ πᾶσαν ὑλικὴν ἀποσμηξάμενος ἔμφασιν καὶ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ὀπτικὸν καθῃράμενος κἀντεῦθεν πρὸς θεοπτίαν γενόμενος ἐπιτήδειος, ὁ τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου φιλάνθρωπον συγκατάβασιν καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ ὑπερφυᾶ σάρκωσιν ἐν βάτῳ καὶ ἀύλῳ πυρὶ κατιδεῖν ἠξιωμένος, φλέγοντι μὲν καὶ ἐκπυροῦντι τὴν ἄκανθαν καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ λαμπρότητα μεταβάλλοντι, οὐ καταφλέγοντι δὲ οὐδὲ ἀφανίζοντι οὔτε μὴν τῆς οἰκείας αὐτὴν ἐξιστῶντι φύσεως, ὁ πρῶτος τὸ τοῦ ὄντος καὶ ἀληθῶς ὑπὲρ οὐσίαν ὄντος μεμυημένος ὄνομα, τῶν οἰκείων καὶ συμφυλετῶν τὴν προστασίαν παρὰ θεοῦ ἐγχειριζόμενος, ἰσχνόφωνον ἐκάλει ἑαυτὸν καὶ βραδύγλωσσον, ὡς οὐ δυνάμενος τῷ θείῳ ἐξυπηρετεῖσθαι βουλήματι καὶ τοῦτο πρὸς τοὐμφανὲς ἄγειν καὶ μεσίτης θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων καθίστασθαι, πῶς ἐγὼ ὁ ῥύπῳ μὲν