
Procli In Platonis Parmenidem Commentaria II
Carlos Steel(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 8. May 2008
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-19-929171-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' Commentary, the Parmenides provides the argumentative and conceptual framework for a scientific theology wherein all mythological discourse about the gods can be integrated. Its exposition was therefore the culmination of the curriculum of the Platonic school. This theological reading of the Parmenides persisted, through the medium of Ficino, until the nineteenth century. Previously this important text was only accessible in the edition of V. Cousin (Paris, 1864). This new critical edition is based on an exhaustive study of both the Greek tradition and the medieval Latin translation. This volume contains Books IV and V.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Height: 193 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
419 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-929171-7 (9780199291717)
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Carlos Steel is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Leuven.