Book III.
Of the False Wisdom of Philosophers.
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- The Divine Institutes
- Preface.--of what great value the knowledge of the truth is and always has been.
- Book i.
- Book II.
- Book III.
- Chap. I.--A Comparison of the Truth with Eloquence: Why the Philosophers Did Not Attain to It. Of the Simple Style of the Scriptures.
- Chap. II.--Of Philosophy, and How Vain Was Its Occupation in Setting Forth the Truth.
- Chap. III.--Of What Subjects Philosophy Consists, and Who Was the Chief Founder of the Academic Sect.
- Chap. IV.--That Knowledge is Taken Away by Socrates, and Conjecture by Zeno.
- Chap. V.--That the Knowledge of Many Things is Necessary.
- Chap. VI.--Of Wisdom, and the Academics, and Natural Philosophy.
- Chap. VII.--Of Moral Philosophy, and the Chief Good.
- Chap. VIII.--Of the Chief Good, and the Pleasures of the Soul and Body, and of Virtue.
- Chap. IX.--Of the Chief Good, and the Worship of the True God, and a Refutation of Anaxagoras.
- Chap. X.--It is the Peculiar Property of Man to Know and Worship God.
- Chap. XI.--Of Religion, Wisdom, and the Chief Good.
- Chap. XII.--Of the Twofold Conflict of Body and Soul; And of Desiring Virtue on Account of Eternal Life.
- Chap. XIII.--Of the Immortality of the Soul, and of Wisdom, Philosophy, and Eloquence.
- Chap. XIV.--That Lucretius and Others Have Erred, and Cicero Himself, in Fixing the Origin of Wisdom.
- Chap. XV.--The Error of Seneca in Philosophy, and How the Speech of Philosophers is at Variance with Their Life.
- Chap. XVI.--That the Philosophers Who Give Good Instructions Live Badly, by the Testimony of Cicero; Therefore We Should Not So Much Devote Ourselves to the Study of Philosophy as to Wisdom.
- Chap. XVII.--He Passes from Philosophy to the Philosophers, Beginning with Epicurus; And How He Regarded Leucippus and Democritus as Authors of Error.
- Chap. XVIII.--The Pythagoreans and Stoics, While They Hold the Immortality of the Soul, Foolishly Persuade a Voluntary Death.
- Chap. XIX.--Cicero and Others of the Wisest Men Teach the Immortality of the Soul, But in an Unbelieving Manner; And that a Good or an Evil Death Must Be Weighed from the Previous Life.
- Chap. XX.--Socrates Had More Knowledge in Philosophy Than Other Men, Although in Many Things He Acted Foolishly.
- Chap. XXI.--Of the System of Plato, Which Would Lead to the Overthrow of States.
- Chap. XXII.--Of the Precepts of Plato, and Censures of the Same.
- Chap. XXIII.--Of the Errors of Certain Philosophers, and of the Sun and Moon.
- Chap. XXIV.--Of the Antipodes, the Heaven, and the Stars.
- Chap. XXV.--Of Learning Philosophy, and What Great Qualifications are Necessary for Its Pursuit.
- Chap. XXVI.--It is Divine Instruction Only Which Bestows Wisdom; And of What Efficacy the Law of God is.
- Chap. XXVII.--How Little the Precepts of Philosophers Contribute to True Wisdom, Which You Will Find in Religion Only.
- Chap. XXVIII.--Of True Religion and of Nature. Whether Fortune is a Goddess, and of Philosophy.
- Chap. XXIX.--Of Fortune Again, and Virtue.
- Chap. XXX.--The Conclusion of the Things Before Spoken; And by What Means We Must Pass from the Vanity of the Philosophers to True Wisdom, and the Knowledge of the True God, in Which Alone are Virtue and Happiness.
- Book IV.
- Book V.
- Book VI.
- Book VII.