Ten gifts of the demiurge : Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus /
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...
| Основен автор: | Kutash, Emilie. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2011.
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Print version::
Ten Gifts of the Demiurge : Proclus on Plato's Timaeus. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: The Ten Gifts of the Demiurge; 2. The Prevailing Circumstances: Theological Rhetoric and the Athenian School; 3. Contrariety and Perceptibility: Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and of War; 4. Bonded Genesis and Foundational Mathematics; 5. The Third Gift: 'He Makes it a Whole'; 6. 'He Makes it a Sphere': The Anatomy of the Autozoion; 7. The World Soul: Animating the Universe from the Centre; 8. Proclus' Golden Ratio: As Time is to Soul, so Intellect is Eternity.
- 9. 'The Sanctuaries of the Gods': The Ontological Status of the Lesser Pantheon10. All Too Mortal: The Proclean Soul and its Inability to Assimilate; 11. Man as a Microcosm: Providence, Fate and the Soul's Descent; 12. Beyond Plato: Nature, 'Woven by the Intellective Light of Athena'; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X.