Virginia, and in particular my department chair, John Miller,
made it possible for me to take course relief during the fall
semester of 2001, when much of the work was completed.
Thanks are due finally to my editor, Will Murphy, for his
patience and enthusiasm for this project.
INTRODUCTION NOTES
- In this larger sense, rather than attempting to translate it, I
have generally left it simply as “(the) logos.” I hope that
readers who have assimilated such terms as “karma” and
“the Tao” will be prepared to welcome this one too. - So, too, some modern physicists have imagined a series of
universes produced by an alternation of expansions and
contractions—“big bangs” and “big crunches.” - Ramsay Macmullen, Enemies of the Roman Order
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966), p.
48. - Earlier translators have been driven to clumsy equivalents
such as “Guiding Reason.” I have generally rendered it
“mind,” as being perhaps the least unsatisfactory English
equivalent. - Two examples are worth pointing to. Marcus finds the