Ten Gifts of the Demiurge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Gifts of the Demiurge write by Emilie Kutash. This book was released on 2013-10-16. Ten Gifts of the Demiurge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus contemplates nature's mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required to address perennial philosophical questions. Nature, for him, is both divine and mathematically transparent. He renders theories of Time, Eternity, Providence, Evil, Soul and Intellect and constructs an elaborate ontology that includes mathematics and astronomy. He gives ample play to pagan theology too, frequently lapsing into the arcane language of the "Chaldaean Oracles". "Ten Gifts of the Demiurge" is an essential companion to this rich but complex and densely wrought text, providing an analysis of its arguments and showing that it, like the cosmos Proclus reveres, is a living coherent whole. The book provides aides to understanding Proclus' work within the complex background of Neoplatonic philosophy, familiarising the reader with the political context of the Athenian school, analysing Proclus' key terminology, and giving background to the philosophical arguments and ancient sciences upon which Proclus draws.Above all, it helps the reader appreciate the varicoloured light that Proclus sheds on the secrets of nature.
The Ten Gifts of the Demiurge
The Ten Gifts of the Demiurge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ten Gifts of the Demiurge write by . This book was released on 2013. The Ten Gifts of the Demiurge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul write by Proclus. This book was released on 2009-12-03. Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the present volume Proclus describes the 'creation' of the soul that animates the entire universe. This is not a literal creation, for Proclus argues that Plato means only to convey the eternal dependence of the World Soul upon higher causes. In his exegesis of Plato's text, Proclus addresses a range of issues in Pythagorean harmonic theory, as well as questions about the way in which the World Soul knows both forms and the visible reality that comprises 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.
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis write by Proclus. This book was released on 2007-04-12. Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Commentary on Plato's Timaeus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commentary on Plato's Timaeus write by Proclus. This book was released on 2007. Commentary on Plato's Timaeus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
