Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides / / Proclus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Proclus,
• MitwirkendeR: Dillon, John M.,; Morrow, Glenn R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (664 p.)

This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato'sParmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist philosopher, the commentary is an intellectual tour de force that greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. As the notes and introductory summaries explain, it comprises a full account of Proclus' own metaphysical system, disguised, as is so much Neoplatonic philosophy, in the form of a commentary.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- A. Life and Works, with a Brief Introduction to Proclus' Philosophical System -- B. Previous Commentary on the Parmenides -- C. The Place of the Parmenides Commentary in Proclus' Work -- D. The Problem of the Forty Logoi of Zeno -- E. Previous Editions and Translations -- NOTE ON THE PRESENT TRANSLATION -- Book I. Introduction -- Commentary -- Book II. Introduction -- Commentary -- Book III. Introduction -- Commentary -- Book IV. Introduction -- Commentary -- Book V. Introduction -- Commentary -- Book VI. Introduction -- Commentary -- Book VII. Introduction -- Book VII. Introduction -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PROPER NAMES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- INDEX OF PLATONIC PASSAGES