
Proclus
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Note on the Cover Illustration
- Map
- 1. Proclus' Life, Times and Influence
- Early years and rise to headship
- Late Antiquity and the Neo-Platonic view of politics
- Athens and the Neo-Platonic School
- Posthumous developments and influence
- 2. General Metaphysics
- Metaphysics and knowledge
- All in all but appropiately
- Similarity and Identity
- Sympathy
- In threes and fours
- Parts and wholes
- Participation
- Propery and definition
- Self-sufficiency
- Paths of participation
- Causation
- Six causes
- The cause is prior to and greater than the effect
- One cause, plural effects
- Power
- Internal and independent powers
- Remaining, procession, reversion
- Being in threes
- 3. Knowledge and the Levels of Being
- The Neo-Platonic curriculum
- Levels of being and knowledge
- The corporeal level
- Cause and effect in the physical domain
- Body and Matter
- Subtle bodies and soul-vehicles
- Space and Time
- Nature
- Imparticiple Nature?
- Psyche
- Personal mind nand discursive thinking
- World soul
- Supracosmic Soul
- Intellect
- Divine Intellect
- Analysis of thought and non-discursive thinking (I)
- Life
- Imparticiple Life and Number
- Being and essence
- Imparticiple Being
- Identity and non-discursive thinking (II)
- Unity
- The henads
- Unity, existence and individuality
- Limit and the Unlimited
- The One
- One, Matter and the inverse hierarchy
- Desire, poetry and theurgy
- 4. Physics and Metaphysics
- What are the Elements
- Background
- Plato's mathematical physics
- Aristotle's qualitative physics
- Proclus against Aristotle
- The Earth Element
- Void gaps
- Phyiscal qualities and geometrical properties
- Particles and sub-particles
- Proclus' Elements and their qualities
- Bodies and powers
- Perceptible qualities and primary properties
- Modalities of the four Elements
- Matter, motion and substance
- Light
- Proclus' theory of motion of the Elements
- Space, body and matter
- Proclus and Philoponus on space
- 5. The Challenge of Reality: Stars and Planets
- Metaphysics and astronomy
- Stars, gods and knowledge
- Satellites?
- Action and body
- The celestial agent
- Celestial physics
- How do the heavenly bodies move?
- On spheres? No
- By themselves? Yes
- Challenged by the stars
- Challenged by the planets
- How can they stray?
- How can they be contrariant?
- Challenged by the earth
- The cosmic heart and the navel
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Main Passages
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