All From One

A Guide to Proclus

Edited by Pieter d'Hoine and Marije Martijn

Introduces the reader to Proclus' life and works
Highlights Proclus' contribution to philosophy of nature, scientific theory, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of language
The first volume to bring together the leading scholars in the field and to present a state of the art of Proclean studies

All From One

A Guide to Proclus

Edited by Pieter d'Hoine and Marije Martijn

Description

Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last official "successors" of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of Antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range of topics and one of the most influential commentators on Plato of all times, the legacy of Proclus in the cultural history of the west can hardly be overestimated.

This book introduces the reader to Proclus' life and works, his place in the Platonic tradition of Antiquity, and the influence his work exerted in later ages. Various chapters are devoted to Proclus' metaphysical system, including his doctrines about the first principle of all reality, the One, and about the Forms and the soul. The broad range of Proclus' thought is further illustrated by highlighting his contribution to philosophy of nature, scientific theory, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of language. Finally, also his most original doctrines on evil and providence, his Neoplatonic virtue ethics, his complex views on theology and religious practice, and his metaphysical aesthetics receive separate treatments.

This book is the first to bring together the leading scholars in the field and to present a state of the art of Proclean studies today. In doing so, it provides the most comprehensive introduction to Proclus' thought currently available.

All From One

A Guide to Proclus

Edited by Pieter d'Hoine and Marije Martijn

1. Proclus of Athens: A Life, Christian Wildberg
2. Proclus' Place in the Platonic Tradition, Harold Tarrant
3. Proclus' System, Marije Martijn & Lloyd P. Gerson
4. The One, the Henads, and the Principles, Gerd Van Riel
5. Platonic Forms and the Triad of Being, Life, and Intellect, Pieter d'Hoine
6. Proclus on the psyche: World Soul and Individual Soul, John Finamore & Emilie Kutash
7. The Natural World, Jan Opsomer
8. Mathematics and the Sciences, Dominic O'Meara
9. Proclus on Epistemology, Language, and Logic, Christoph Helmig
10. Proclus on Gods and Demons, Luc Brisson
11. Theurgy in the Context of Proclus' Philosophy, Robbert M. van den Berg
12. Providence and Evil, Carlos Steel
13. The Human Life, Dirk Baltzly
14. Literary Theory and Aesthetics, Anne Sheppard
15. Proclus' Legacy, Peter Adamson & Filip Karfik
Appendix I: Proclus' Metaphysical and Theological System
Appendix II: Proclus' Works

All From One

A Guide to Proclus

Edited by Pieter d'Hoine and Marije Martijn

Author Information

Pieter d'Hoine is Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Intellectual History at the De Wulf-Mansion Center for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven). He has co-edited, under the direction of Carlos Steel, Proclus' Commentary on the Parmenides for the Oxford Classical Texts and published on various aspects of later ancient metaphysics and epistemology. He is currently writing a monograph on the reception of Plato's theory of Forms in later Platonism.

Marije Martijn is Associate Professor of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the author of Proclus on Nature: Philosophy of Nature and its Methods in Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus and of various articles on Proclus' natural philosophy and methodology. She is currently working on a monograph concerning the role of aesthetic and semiotic principles in Neoplatonic metaphysics and epistemology.

Contributors:

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilians University
Dirk Baltzly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania
Luc Brisson is Director of Research at the Centre Jean Pépin
Pieter d'Hoine is Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Intellectual History at the Institute of Philosophy,KU Leuven
John Finamore is Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa
Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy at Toronto University
Christoph Helmig is Professor of Philosophy in Cologne
Filip Karfik is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Fribourg
Emilie Kutash is Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Joseph's College, New York
Marije Martijn is C.J. de Vogel Professor of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dominic O'Meara is emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy from the University of Freiburg
Jan Opsomer is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at KU Leuven
Anne Sheppard is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London
Carlos Steel is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at KU Leuven
Harold Tarrant is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Newcastle (AU)
Robbert M. van den Berg is Lecturer in Classics at Leiden University
Gerd Van Riel is Francqui Research Professor of Ancient Philosophy at KU Leuven
Christian Wildberg is Professor of Classics at Princeton University