Proclus and his Legacy [online] / ed. Danielle A. Layne and David D. Butorac

Frontmatter Contents Note on editions, translations and abbreviations Introduction

Part I. Proclus in context: Background, relevance and system Proclus in the history of philosophy: Construction and deconstruction Forgetting procline theology: the Alexandrian story Platonic Eros, Moral Egoism, and Proclus The Platonic Hero The Status of Body in Proclus Proclus on Time and the Units of Time Proclus and Apokatastasis Proclus’ aporetic epistemology The Lycians are coming: The career of Patricius, the Father of Proclus Marinus’ Abrahamic notions of the Soul and One

Part II. Ps.-Dionysius, Byzantium and the Christian inheritance of Proclus Spiritual Motion and the Incarnation in the Divine Names of Dionysius The Areopagite A Crypto-Pagan Reading of the Figure of Hierotheus and the “Dormition” Passage in the Corpus Areopagiticum An unknown Elements of Theology? On Proclus as the model for the Hierotheos in the Dionysian Corpus The Transfiguration of Proclus’ Legacy: Pseudo-Dionysius and the Late Neoplatonic School of Athens Pseudo-Dionysius and Proclus on Parmenides 137d: On Parts and Wholes The Renaissance of Proclus in the Eleventh Century Proclus as a biblical exegete: Bible and its Platonic interpretation in Ioane Petritsi’s commentaries Dionysius Against Proclus: the Apophatic Critique in Nicholas of Methone’s Refutation of the Elements of Theology The Presence of Proclus in George Pachymeres’ Paraphrase of Ps.-Dionysius’ De Divinis Nominibus

Part III. Proclus in Arabic philosophy and Early Modernity On the Absence of the Henads in the Liber de Causis: Some Consequences for Procline Subjectivity Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Istithmār on Proclus’ Commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses Al-Šahrastānī on Proclus Proclus’ Arguments on the Eternity of the World in al-Shahrastānī’s Works Proclus as a Source for Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Arguments Concerning Emanatio and Creatio Ex Nihilo Aeternall Lawe: Richard Hooker’s Neoplatonic Account of Law and Causality Proclus Revenant: The (Re‐)Integration of Proclus into the Creationism-Eternalism Debate in Joseph Solomon Delmedigo’s (1591–1655) Novelot Ḥokhma Understanding the Geometric Method: Prolegomena to a Study of Procline Influences in Spinoza as Mediated through Abraham Cohen Herrera Bibliography Index

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