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General introduction (a) for mathematics, specific (b) for geometry. Proclus, one of the last great thinkers of Neoplatonic philosophy and ancient Greek philosophical thought in general, was born in Constantinople on February 8, 412 AD. Born to a wealthy family from Lycia, he studied at the best educational centers of his time, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Athens.
There he came into contact with the Athenian Neoplatonic Academy, which captivated him definitively, and of which he became the director after the death of his teacher, Syrianus. He died in Athens on April 17, 485 AD, and was buried near Lycabettus.
Living in an era of syncretistic chaos, he would compose the entire preceding Neoplatonic philosophical tradition into a unified and complex system, influenced by Pythagorean, Aristotelian, and Stoic elements. In his system, he would conflate the one god, the intelligible and intellectual substances, magic, and various beings of a demonic nature, and in this form, he would pass it down to the scholastic Middle Ages.
His work is a fundamental source for any student of Neoplatonic philosophy, as well as that of Plato himself, for whom he often proposes original and extremely interesting interpretations.
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- Soft
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- Release Date
- 12/2007
- Publication Date
- 2007
Content
- Philosophical Movement/School
- Stoicism
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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