Metaphysical Elements (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Proclus, Proclus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440090289 ISBN 13 : 9781440090288

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the life and ideas of Proclus, a defining bridge in Platonic thought and sacred philosophy.

This edition illuminates the path from Plato’s academy to Proclus’s own vast writings, highlighting his training, his ascent to wisdom, and his role as a master of ancient philosophy. It blends biographical detail with the development of a distinctly theocratic Platonism, including how divine natures relate to human knowledge and the cosmos.

- Learn how Proclus absorbed Aristotle and Plato and used their ideas to shape a unified theological philosophy.
- See how virtue and intellect are described as guiding powers that purify the soul and illuminate the divine order.
- Understand key propositions about how gods know the world, participate in it, and sustain all things by their very nature.
- Delve into the relationships between intelligible realities, the soul, and the body in a system that blends myth, ritual, and philosophy.

Ideal for readers of ancient philosophy, Platonic theology, and the history of metaphysical thought.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Metaphysical Elements

Proclus, the famous philosopher, mathematician and poet, came into the world of time and sense on the 8th. day of February, A. D. 410, at Byzantium, and migrated from this physical life on April the 17th. 485 A. D. His parents, Patricius and Marcella, were Lycians and of an illustrious family. He was taken immed iately after his birth to their native country, to the city of Xanthus, which was consecrated to Apollo. And this happened to him by a certain divine providence: for it was necessary that he who was to be the leader of all sciences should be educated under the presiding Deity of the Muses. He received his elementary edu cation in Lycia, and then went to Alexandria, in Egypt, and became a pupil of Leonas the rhetorician, and Orion the grammarian. He likewise attended the schools of the Roman teachers, and acquired an accu rate knowledge of the Latin language. But his tutelar Goddess exhorted him to study philosophy, and to go to the Athenian schools. In obedience to this exhorta tion he attended the lectures of Olympiodorus, an emi nent Peripatetic, in order to learn the doctrine of Aris totle; and he was instructed in mathematical disciplines by Hero.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440090289
• ISBN 13: 9781440090288
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 225
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