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Proclus - prōˈkləs, 410?–485, Neoplatonic philosopher, b. Constantinople. He studied at Alexandria and at Athens, where he was a pupil of the Platonist Syrianus, whom he succeeded as a teacher. As a partisan of paganism he was forced to leave Athens, but he returned at the end of a year. A synthesizer of Neoplatonic doctrines, Proclus gave the philosophy its most


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    The Neo-Platonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism (1928) (Ch. IX "The Athenian School - Proclus") » Read Now

    by Thomas Whittaker. 322 pgs.

    ...WITH A SUPPLEMENT ON THE COMMENTARIES OF PROCLUS CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS...sufficient was a more adequate exposition of Proclus. I had never proposed to deal with...
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    Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Chap. 7 "Proclus: Some Preliminary Issues" and Chap. 8 "Proclus on Mathematics") » Read Now

    by Dominic J. O'Meara. 252 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired philosophers in the fourth and fifth centuries to develop theories in physics and metaphysics using mathematical models. These theories were to become influential in medieval and early modern philosophy, yet until now...
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    Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: The Latin Tradition, Vol. II ("The Influence of Lamblichus, Syrianus, and Proclus" begins on p. 701) » Read Now

    by Stephen Gersh, Ralph McInerny. 524 pgs.

    ...Influence of Iamblichus, Syrianus, and Proclus 701 9.2133 The Influence...1-6; for Porphyry and Numenius: Proclus: In Tim . 1, 77 , 21-24; and for Porphyry...even an...
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    God in Himself: Aquinas' Doctrine of God as Expounded in the Summa Theologiae (Discussion of Proclus in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by W. J. Hankey. 196 pgs.

    During the post-Vatican I period, in the course of the Church's anti-Modernist campaign, Roman Catholic scholars isolated St. Thomas Aquinas's philosophical theology from its neo-Platonism, and other scholars have also tended to treat the various parts of his Summa Theologiae without regard to their...
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    Philosophical Studies (1934) (Chap. IV "The Philosophy of Proclus") » Read Now

    by A. E. Taylor. 426 pgs.

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    ...text of the i of Proclus, that of Professor E. R. Dodds Oxford...henads" is really due to Syrianus, not to Proclus himself, and that the attempt made in...91 IV. THE...
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    Ethics and Rhetoric: Classical Essays for Donald Russell on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (Chap. 27 "Phantasia and Analogia in Proclus") » Read Now

    by D. A. Russell, Doreen Innes, Harry Hine, Christopher Pelling. 384 pgs.

    This is a collection of new essays on the theme of ethics and rhetoric in classical literature by an extremely prestigious array of scholars from the UK, US, and Europe. Writing in honor of Professor Donald Russell, former Professor of Classical Literature at Oxford, the contributors look at issues...
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    Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought ("Proclus" begins on p. 429) » Read Now

    by R. J. Hankinson. 506 pgs.

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    R. J. Hankinson traces the history of ancient Greek thinking about causation and explanation, from its earliest beginnings through more than a thousand years to the middle of the first millennium of the Christian era. The ancient Greeks were the first Western civilization to subject the ideas of...
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    The Physical World of Late Antiquity ("Proclus and the Ptolemaic System" begins on p. 145) » Read Now

    by S. Sambursky. 189 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...unitary picture 133 3. Proclus and the Ptolemaic system 145 1...mention the great Syrianus, the teacher of Proclus the Lycian. In his tenth treatise on...excerpts from...
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    Renaissance Philosophy (Discussion of Proclus in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Brian P. Copenhaver, Charles B. Schmitt. 450 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...82 ; Wallis 1972: 1-36 ; Dillon 1977: 1-11, 22-3, 43-62 ; Long 1986: 75-6, 88-106 ; below, Ch. 3, nn. 6-7. Proclus, Synesius, and other Neoplatonists scarcely or not at all...
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    Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Discussion of Proclus in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Andrew Smith. 152 pgs.

    The ideas of the Neoplatonists affected approaches to Plato as late as the 19th century & had a considerable influence on Christian thought. Andrew Smith explores the thinking of the Neoplatonist philosophers of late antiquity & also the milleu in which they worked.
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    Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plato and the Platonists ("Proclus" begins on p. 432) » Read Now

    by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, E. S. Haldane, Frances H. Simson. 458 pgs.

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    Ancient Mathematics (Discussion of Proclus in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by S. Cuomo. 290 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The theorem of Pythagoras, Euclid's "Elements", Archimedes' method to find the volume of a sphere: all parts of the invaluable legacy of ancient mathematics. But ancient mathematics was also about counting and measuring, surveying land and attributing mystical significance to the number six.This...
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    A History of Ancient Philosophy: From the Beginnings to Augustine (Porphyry, Iamblichus,and Proclus" begins on p. 558) » Read Now

    by Karsten Friis Johansen. 685 pgs.

    Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical...

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