Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides
Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides

Author: Proclus,

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1992-10-21

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 9780691020891

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This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist philosopher, the commentary is an intellectual tour de force that greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. As the notes and introductory summaries explain, it comprises a full account of Proclus' own metaphysical system, disguised, as is so much Neoplatonic philosophy, in the form of a commentary.

Proclus on Nature
Proclus on Nature

Author: Marije Martijn

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-03-22

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9004193251

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Of Proclus’ immense philosophical system, the part concerning the natural world may well be the most fascinating. Traditional scholarship tends to downplay that part of Neoplatonism, in favour of idealism, but recently this attitude is changing. This study contributes to that development by showing how Proclus’ natural philosophy relates to theology, while remaining a science in its own right. Starting from his Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus, it presents a revision of Proclus’ metaphysics of nature and provides new insight into his surprisingly peripatetic philosophy of science, the role of mathematics, and the nature of discourse in natural philosophy. This book will be of interest both to students of the Platonic tradition, and to historians of natural science, metaphysics and epistemology.

The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides
The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides

Author: Sarah Klitenic Wear

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-03-05

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 9004192905

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This books delves into the major tenets of Syrianus' philosophical teachings on the Timaeus and Parmenides based on the testimonia of Proclus, as found in Proclus' commentaries on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides, and Damascius, as reported in his On First Principles and commentary on Plato's Parmenides.

Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic: Volume 1
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic: Volume 1

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 9781316608302

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The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together with a general introduction that argues for the unity of Proclus' Commentary and orients the reader to the use that the Neoplatonists made of Plato's Republic in their educational program. Each volume is completed by a Greek word index and an English-Greek glossary that will help non-specialists to track the occurrence of key terms throughout the translated text. The first volume of the edition presents Proclus' essays on the point and purpose of Plato's dialogue, the arguments against Thrasymachus in Book I, the rules for correct poetic depictions of the divine, a series of problems about the status of poetry across all Plato's works, and finally an essay arguing for the fundamental agreement of Plato's philosophy with the divine wisdom of Homer which is, in Proclus' view, allegorically communicated through his poems.

Proclus
Proclus

Author: Radek Chlup

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-26

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0521761484

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An introduction to the philosophical and religious thought of Proclus the Neoplatonist, one of the most complex thinkers of antiquity.