Proclus : neo-platonic philosophy and science
Lucas Siorvanes
Proclus, head of the Philosophy School at Athens for fifty years,
was one of the leading philosophical figures in Late Antiquity. Lucas
Siorvanes here introduces Proclus to English-language readers,
discussing his metaphysics and theory of knowledge and focusing in
particular on his Neo-Platonism.
Proclus lived in the turbulent
fifth century A.D., a time of struggles among Christians, Jews, and
pagans, the invasion of Attila the Hun, the fall of the Western Roman
Empire, and the rise of the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium. While
Late Antiquity has been regarded as a time of superstition and
forbiddingly complex philosophies, recent scholarship has shown it to be
full of cultural and intellectual vigor. During Proclus's tenure as
head of the Philosophy School, he systematized Neo-Platonism as the
summit of ancient Greek thought, brought it to its peak of influence,
and became responsible for the form in which it was transmitted to the
Byzantine, Western European, and Islamic civilizations.
Siorvanes's
extensive original research presents Proclus as much more than just a
metaphysician. He surveys all of Proclus's philosophical
interests―including religion, physics, astronomy, mathematics, and
poetry―revealing the philosopher's central concern with the problems of
being and knowledge and relating the ideas of Proclus to those of such
other major thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy. To help the
newcomer, Siorvanes supplies more than 200 quotations from Proclus's
works. He also traces the impact of Proclus's Neo-Platonism across
cultures, religions, and centuries, in such diverse areas as Christian
and Islamic theologies, Renaissance art, Kepler's astronomy, Romantic
poetry, Emerson's thought, modern philosophy and science, and current
popular phrases.
was one of the leading philosophical figures in Late Antiquity. Lucas
Siorvanes here introduces Proclus to English-language readers,
discussing his metaphysics and theory of knowledge and focusing in
particular on his Neo-Platonism.
Proclus lived in the turbulent
fifth century A.D., a time of struggles among Christians, Jews, and
pagans, the invasion of Attila the Hun, the fall of the Western Roman
Empire, and the rise of the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium. While
Late Antiquity has been regarded as a time of superstition and
forbiddingly complex philosophies, recent scholarship has shown it to be
full of cultural and intellectual vigor. During Proclus's tenure as
head of the Philosophy School, he systematized Neo-Platonism as the
summit of ancient Greek thought, brought it to its peak of influence,
and became responsible for the form in which it was transmitted to the
Byzantine, Western European, and Islamic civilizations.
Siorvanes's
extensive original research presents Proclus as much more than just a
metaphysician. He surveys all of Proclus's philosophical
interests―including religion, physics, astronomy, mathematics, and
poetry―revealing the philosopher's central concern with the problems of
being and knowledge and relating the ideas of Proclus to those of such
other major thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy. To help the
newcomer, Siorvanes supplies more than 200 quotations from Proclus's
works. He also traces the impact of Proclus's Neo-Platonism across
cultures, religions, and centuries, in such diverse areas as Christian
and Islamic theologies, Renaissance art, Kepler's astronomy, Romantic
poetry, Emerson's thought, modern philosophy and science, and current
popular phrases.
年:
1996
出版社:
Yale University Press
语言:
english
页:
179
ISBN 10:
0585105669
ISBN 13:
9780585105666
文件:
PDF, 152.22 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1996
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