Proclus

Proclus
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 1546304630
ISBN-13 : 9781546304630
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Book Synopsis Proclus by : Thomas Taylor

Download or read book Proclus written by Thomas Taylor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Elements of Theology" is one of Proclus' most famous works. The translator Thomas Taylor describes the Elements thus: "This admirable work contains two hundred and eleven propositions, disposed in a scientific order, and supported by the firmest demonstrations. They begin from the super-essential unity, and proceed gradually through all the beautiful and wonderful progressions of divine causes, ending in the self-moving energies of souls. They possess all the accuracy of Euclid, and all the subtlety and sublimity necessary to a knowledge of the most profound theology; and may be considered as bearing the same relation to the Pythagoric and Platonic wisdom, as Euclid's Elements, to the most abstruse geometry. . . . it is replete with sublimest knowledge, and the most important truths. . . . the propositions relate to the most abstract subjects that can be conceived; and the demonstrations are uncommonly subtle and profound. I only add, that these Elements form an admirable introduction to the six books of Proclus on Plato's Theology."-Thomas Taylor, from the Foreword.


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