Proclus

Also known as Proclus Lycaeus

Proclus Lycius (; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485), called Proclus the Successor (, ), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers of late antiquity. He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism and, through later interpreters and translators, exerted an influence on Byzantine philosophy, early Islamic philosophy, scholastic philosophy, and German idealism, especially G. W. F. Hegel, who called Proclus's Platonic Theology "the true turning point or transition from ancient to modern times, from ancient philosophy to

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Proclus was a Greek philosopher from the 5th century who created one of the most complete versions of Neoplatonism, a philosophical system based on the ideas of Plato. His work became influential across many later philosophical traditions, including Byzantine, Islamic, medieval Christian, and German philosophy, making him one of the most important thinkers of his era.

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Born: approximately 410
Died: 485
Works: 80

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Platonis Parmenides
Kallimachos Kleanthēs Proklos
Moralis interpretatio errorum Vlyssis Homerici
Claudij Ptolemaei Pelusiensis Alexandrini Omnia quae extant opera, praeter Geographiam, quam non dissimili forma nuperrimè aedidimus
Ocellus Lucanus on the nature of the universe. Taurus, the Platonic philosopher, on the eternity of the world. Julius Firmicus Maternus of the thema mundi; in which the positions of the stars at the commencement of the several mundane periods is given. Select theorems on the perpetuity of time, by Proclus

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Total plays: 325

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5 total works indexed

Proclus
· 1970 · cited 112x
Commentaire sur le Parménide de Platon
· 1982 · cited 83x
Proclus
· 2007 · cited 30x
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
· 2007 · cited 9x
Procli Diadochi Tria opuscula
· 1960 · cited 8x

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Quotes

“It is told that those who first brought out the irrationals from concealment into the open perished in shipwreck, to a man. For the unutterable and the formless must needs be concealed. And those who uncovered and touched this image of life were instantaneously destroyed and shall remain forever exposed to the play of the eternal waves.”
“This, therefore, is mathematics: she reminds you of the invisible form of the soul; she gives life to her own discoveries; she awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; she brings light to our intrinsic ideas; she abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.”
“The mathematician speculates the causes of a certain sensible effect, without considering its actual existence; for the contemplation of universals excludes the knowledge of particulars; and he whose intellectual eye is fixed on that which is general and comprehensive, will think but little of that which is sensible and singular.”
“But after these, Pythagoras changed that philosophy, which is conversant about geometry itself, into the form of a liberal doctrine, considering its principles in a more exalted manner; and investigating its theorems immaterially and intellectually; who likewise invented a treatise of such things as cannot be explained in geometry, and discovered the constitution of the mundane figures.”
“But Eudoxus the Cnidian, who was somewhat junior to Leon, and the companion of Plato, first of all rendered the multitude of those theorems which are called universals more abundant; and to three proportions added three others; and things relative to a section, which received their commencement from Plato, he diffused into a richer multitude, employing also resolutions in the prosecution of these.”
“But Hermotimus, the Colophonian, rendered more abundant what was formerly published by Eudoxus and Theætetus, and invented a multitude of elements, and wrote concerning some geometrical places. But Philippus the Mendæan, a disciple of Plato, and by him inflamed in the mathematical disciplines, both composed questions, according to the institutions of Plato, and proposed as the object of his enquiry whatever he thought conduced to the Platonic philosophy.”

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Key facts

Philosopher.name: Proclus
Philosopher.image: File:In_primum_Euclidis_elementorum_librum_01.jpg
Philosopher.caption: The beginning of the first Latin edition of Proclus' ''Commentary on Euclid's Elements''
Philosopher.birth_date: 412
Philosopher.birth_place: Constantinople, Thracia, Eastern Roman Empire
Philosopher.death_date: 485 (aged 72–73)
Philosopher.death_place: Athens, Achaea, Eastern Roman Empire
Philosopher.other_names: "The Successor"
Philosopher.era: Ancient philosophy
Philosopher.region: Western philosophy
Philosopher.school_tradition: Neoplatonism
Philosopher.main_interests: Metaphysics
Philosopher.notable_ideas: Platonic theology

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Image: In primum Euclidis elementorum librum 01.jpg

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date of birth: 0412-02-08
date of death: 0485-04-17
Commons category: Proclus
name in native language: Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος
birth name: Πρόκλος
Commons Creator page: Proclus
P13311: Johan Maurits Mohr
significant place: Lycia

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Works in European collections

32 objects attributed to Proclus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Proclus in Politiam Platonis

Procli successoris designatio astronomicorum

Procli subfiguratio astronomicarum supputationum

Procli Platonici Expositio in Parmenidem Platonis

Procli De Sphaera Liber I. Cleomedis de Mundo, sive circularis inspectionis meteororum Libri II. Arati Solensis Phaenomenam sine Apparentia, Dionysii Afri descriptio Orbis habitabilis; Omnia Graece et Latine ... [Texto impreso]

Procli Sphaera. Ptolemaei de Hypothesibus Planetarum liber singularis, nunc primum in lucem editus. Cuis accessit ejusdem Ptolemaei Canon Regnorum. Utrumque librum ex codicum M.S. collatione summa diligentia restituit, Latine reddidit, et Figuris illustravit Ioh. Bainbridge Med. Doctor, et Astronomiae in celeberrima Oxoniensi Academia Professor [Texto impreso]

Procli Sphaera [Printed Text]

Proklou Sphaira... [Printed Text]

Proclou tou Diadochou Tōn asaphōs eirēmenōn Ptolemaiōi, kai dysparakolouthētōs en tēi autou tetrabiblōi, epi to saphesteron kai dysparakolouthēton metacheirēsis = Procli paraphrasis in quatuor Ptolemaei books of siderum effectionibus

Procli de Sphaera liber. Cleomedis de Mundo, sive circularis inspectionis meteororum libri duo. Arati Solensis Phaenomena, sive Apparentia. Dionysii Afri Descriptio orbis habitabilis ; omnia graece et latine ita coniuncta, ...; adjectis etiam annotationibus [Texto impreso]