Commentary On Plato S Timaeus Book 5 Proclus On The Gods Of Generation And The Creation Of Humans

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113950679X

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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 6, Book 5: Proclus on the Gods of Generation and the Creation of Humans by Proclus Pdf

Proclus' commentary on the dialogue Timaeus by Plato (d.347 BC), written in the fifth century AD, is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition nevertheless offers the first new translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship by Neoplatonic commentators. It will provide an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The book presents Proclus' unrepentant account of a multitude of divinities involved with the creation of mortal life, the supreme creator's delegation to them of the creation of human life, and the manner in which they took the immortal life principle from him and wove it together with our mortal parts to produce human beings.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2007274547

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Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Book 5: Proclus on the Gods of generation and the creation of humans by Proclus Pdf

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : OCLC:994205510

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Commentary on Plato's Timaeus by Proclus Pdf

"Proclus' Commentary on the dialogue 'Timaeus' by Plato (d.347 BC), written in the fifth century AD, is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition nevertheless offers the first new translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It will provide an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The book presents Proclus' unrepentant account of a multitude of divinities involved with the creation of mortal life, the supreme creator's delegation to them of the creation of human life, and the manner in which they took the immortal life principle from him and wove it together with our mortal parts to produce human beings.--Jacket flap

Author : Proclus,Dirk Baltzly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : 9780521845953

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Commentary on Plato's Timaeus by Proclus,Dirk Baltzly Pdf

Pythagorean harmonic theory, as well as questions about the way in which the World Soul knows both Forms and the visible reality that constitutes its body. This part of Proclus' Commentary is particularly responsive to the interpretive tradition that precedes it. As a result, this volume is especially significant for the study of the Platonic tradition from the earliest commentators onwards." --Book Jacket.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521846587

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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 5, Book 4 by Proclus Pdf

Proclus' commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The present volume, the fifth in the edition, presents Proclus' commentary on the Timaeus, dealing with Proclus' account of static and flowing time; we see Proclus situating Plato's account of the motions of the stars and planets in relation to the astronomical theories of his day. The volume includes a substantial introduction, as well as notes that will shed new light on the text.

Author : Franziska van Buren
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789462703568

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Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure by Franziska van Buren Pdf

Contemporary scholarship on Bonaventure has characterized him as the Neo-platonic foil to the Aristotelianism of his day. The present book, however, shows a Bonaventure who is highly enthusiastic about utilizing the philosophy of Aristotle and who centers much of his philosophical project around interpreting and understanding the texts of Aristotle. Two goals are central to this book. The first is to shed light on Bonaventure’s greatly understudied ontology and theory of forms, demonstrating how his philosophical system is an important and unique alternative to other medieval Aristotelian systems. The second is to establish, more broadly, how Bonaventure’s interpretation of Aristotle is a resource which should be mined for contemporary efforts in thinking about and reading Aristotle himself.

Author : Pier Franco Beatrice
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004680074

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The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians by Pier Franco Beatrice Pdf

This book gives us a new perspective on the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles by Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232/305 CE), demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about this work and its fragments is mistaken. Here, for the first time, the attempt is made at reconstructing the original text by following the vicissitudes of its reception and transmission from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to modern scholarship. The extensive and painstaking study of the surviving fragments leads to the radically innovative conclusion that this encyclopedic treatise, written by Porphyry in the last decades of the 3rd century CE, consisted of fifteen books organized in various sections. After an initial discussion of the nature of theurgy and of its subordinate role with respect to philosophy, Porphyry describes the entire history of Greek philosophy from Homer up to his own teacher Plotinus, to then go on to present “introductions” to the seven encyclical disciplines whose study is required for the comprehension of theosophy, that is, the esoteric speculation on the three parts of philosophy: anthropology-ethics, physics, and metaphysics-theology. By harmonizing the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and the Chaldean Oracles, Porphyry intends to present the complete and definitive philosophic system, with the aim of showing the universal way for the liberation of the souls of initiates and of contextually fighting the final battle of the Greco-Roman civilization against Christianity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004681132

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Longing for Perfection in Late Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

How on earth can humans be perfect? The striving for perfection has always occupied a central place in ancient Greek culture. This dynamics urged the Greeks on to surpass themselves in different fields, from sculpture and architecture over athletics to philosophy. In this volume, an international group of scholars examines how the ideal of perfection was conceived and pursued in Late Antiquity, both within philosophical circles and Christianity. Their studies yield a fascinating panorama of various attempts to bridge the unbridgeable and assimilate our frail, imperfect human nature as far as possible to divine perfection.

Author : Francesco Pelosi,Federico M. Petrucci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108832274

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Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire by Francesco Pelosi,Federico M. Petrucci Pdf

Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.

Author : Yury Arzhanov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783111388212

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Porphyry in Syriac by Yury Arzhanov Pdf

In 2021, a previously unknown treatise by Porphyry of Tyre, which has been preserved in a Syriac translation, was made available to historians of philosophy: Porphyry, On Principles and Matter (De Gruyter, 2021). This text not only enlarges our knowledge of the legacy of the most prominent disciple of Plotinus but also serves as an important witness to Platonist discussions of first principles and of Plato’s concept of prime matter in the Timaeus. The aim of the present volume of collected studies is two-fold. On the one hand, it brings up an update to the state of the art of our knowledge of Porphyry’s philosophy and of his role in the transmission of the earlier philosophical materials, especially those of the Middle Platonic works. On the other hand, it focuses on the questions of the reception of Porphyry’s legacy, both by Greek and Latin Platonists (with special interest in Calcidius) and by Christian Oriental authors (with particular focus on the Syriac tradition). The primary audience of the book will be scholars and graduate students in ancient and late ancient Greek philosophy, Orientalists and scholars interested in the Christian reception of Greek philosophy, in the studies of the Christian Orient, as well as in Greek, Latin, and Syriac philology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004502529

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Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds by Anonim Pdf

This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107244320

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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 5, Book 4 by Proclus Pdf

Proclus' commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The present volume, the fifth in the edition, presents Proclus' commentary on the Timaeus, dealing with Proclus' account of static and flowing time; we see Proclus situating Plato's account of the motions of the stars and planets in relation to the astronomical theories of his day. The volume includes a substantial introduction, as well as notes that will shed new light on the text.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139461979

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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis by Proclus Pdf

Proclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The present volume, the first in the edition, deals with what may be seen as the prefatory material of the Timaeus. In it Socrates gives a summary of the political arrangements favoured in the Republic, and Critias tells the story of how news of the defeat of Atlantis by ancient Athens had been brought back to Greece from Egypt by the poet and politician Solon.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041190815

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The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, in Five Books by Proclus Pdf

Author : Christina Hoenig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108415804

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Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition by Christina Hoenig Pdf

The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.