Procli In Platonis Parmenidem Commentaria II - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199291713 ISBN 13: 9780199291717

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' Commentary, the Parmenides provides the argumentative and conceptual framework for a scientific theology wherein all mythological discourse about the gods can be integrated. Its exposition was therefore the culmination of the curriculum of the Platonic school. This theological reading of the Parmenides persisted, through the medium of Ficino, until the nineteenth century. Previously this important text was only accessible in the edition of V. Cousin (Paris, 1864). This new critical edition is based on an exhaustive study of both the Greek tradition and the medieval Latin translation. This volume contains Books IV and V.

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Carlos Steel is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Leuven.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199291713
• ISBN 13: 9780199291717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Steel Carlos