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The supreme One. The divine triads. The transcendent gods. The realm of the mind. The realm of One Being and Essence.
Proclus, one of the last great thinkers of Neoplatonic philosophy and of ancient Greek philosophical reflection in general, was born in Constantinople on February 8, 412 AD. Born into 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 completely 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 a time of syncretistic chaos, he would compose a single and complex system that encompassed the entire preceding Neoplatonic philosophical tradition, influenced by Pythagorean, Aristotelian, and Stoic elements; in his system, he would integrate the one god, the intelligible and the intellectual hypostases, magic, and various entities of a demonic nature, and in this form, he would pass it on to the scholastic Middle Ages.
His work is a key source for any student of Neoplatonic philosophy, but also for Plato himself, whose original and extremely interesting interpretations he often proposes.
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- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 372
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 1999
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- Classic Texts
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