Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on editions, translations and abbreviations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Proclus in Context: Background, Relevance and System
6. Proclus in the History of Philosophy: Construction and Deconstruction 17
7. Forgetting Procline Theology: the Alexandrian Story 33
8. Platonic Eros, Moral Egoism, and Proclus 45
9. The Platonic Hero 53
10. The Status of Body in Proclus 69
11. Proclus on Time and the Units of Time 83
12. Proclus and Apokatastasis 95
13. Proclus’ aporetic epistemology 123
14. The Lycians are coming: The career of Patricius, the Father of Proclus 137
15. Marinus’ Abrahamic notions of the Soul and One 145
16. Part II. Ps.-Dionysius, Byzantium and the Christian inheritance of Proclus
17. Spiritual Motion and the Incarnation in the Divine Names of Dionysius The Areopagite 161
18. A Crypto-Pagan Reading of the Figure of Hierotheus and the “Dormition” Passage in the Corpus Areopagiticum 175
19. An unknown Elements of Theology? On Proclus as the model for the Hierotheos in the Dionysian Corpus 183
20. The Transfiguration of Proclus’ Legacy: Pseudo-Dionysius and the Late Neoplatonic School of Athens 199
21. Pseudo-Dionysius and Proclus on Parmenides 137d: On Parts and Wholes 219
22. The Renaissance of Proclus in the Eleventh Century 233
23. Proclus as a biblical exegete: Bible and its Platonic interpretation in Ioane Petritsi’s commentaries 241
24. Dionysius Against Proclus: the Apophatic Critique in Nicholas of Methone’s Refutation of the Elements of Theology 249
25. The Presence of Proclus in George Pachymeres’ Paraphrase of Ps.-Dionysius’ De Divinis Nominibus 271
26. Part III. Proclus in Arabic philosophy and Early Modernity
27. On the Absence of the Henads in the Liber de Causis: Some Consequences for Procline Subjectivity 289
28. Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Istithmār on Proclus’ Commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses 311
29. Al-Šahrastānī on Proclus 323
30. Proclus’ Arguments on the Eternity of the World in al-Shahrastānī’s Works 335
31. Proclus as a Source for Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Arguments Concerning Emanatio and Creatio Ex Nihilo 353
32. Aeternall Lawe: Richard Hooker’s Neoplatonic Account of Law and Causality 365
33. Proclus Revenant: The (Re‐)Integration of Proclus into the Creationism-Eternalism Debate in Joseph Solomon Delmedigo’s (1591–1655) Novelot Ḥokhma 375
34. Understanding the Geometric Method: Prolegomena to a Study of Procline Influences in Spinoza as Mediated through Abraham Cohen Herrera 391
35. Bibliography 415
36. Index 451