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Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles : A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of Proclus' Treatise on Chaldean Philosophy
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 0.1 The Chaldean Oracles and Proclus -- 0.2 A brief introductory comparison between Proclus' and the Chaldean Oracles' metaphysics -- 0.3 A concise assess...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
: Taylor & Francis Group
, 2020
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| Series: | Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6266995 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 0.1 The Chaldean Oracles and Proclus -- 0.2 A brief introductory comparison between Proclus' and the Chaldean Oracles' metaphysics -- 0.3 A concise assessment of the disagreement of current literature concerning the first principles of Chaldean metaphysics -- 0.4 The purpose of this book -- 0.5 Some methodological and hermeneutical considerations -- 0.6 Final considerations -- 1 The Chaldean triad -- 1.1 The triad Father - Power - Intellect -- 1.2 The First Transcendent Fire, the First Intellect and the Demiurgic Intellect -- 2 The structure of the divine dimension -- 2.1 The single divine hypostases -- 3 The world's intellectual archetype and the creation of the material dimension -- 3.1 The world of intellectual Ideas -- 3.2 The division of all things into triads -- 3.3 The cosmic triad Faith - Truth - Eros -- 3.4 The paternal Intellect's 'channels of implacable fire' -- 3.5 Symbola and synthemata -- 3.6 Matter -- 3.7 The four elements and the creation of the material world -- 3.8 The sun and the encosmic gods -- 3.9 The sky -- 3.10 The movement of the fixed stars and the planetary revolutions -- 4 Man and his destiny -- 4.1 The creation of man by the Father -- 4.2 The vehicle of the soul -- 4.3 The material body -- 4.4 The liberation of the souls from their material costraints -- 4.5 Metempsychosis -- 4.6 The soul's faculty of perception -- 4.7 The 'gods'' address to the initiate -- 4.8 The initiate's love for the gods -- 4.9 Hecate's apparitions to the initiate -- 4.10 The Chaldean way to the Father -- 4.11 Man between angels and daemons -- 5 Proclus' On Chaldean Philosophy: translation and commentary -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Text -- 5.3 Translation -- 5.4 Commentary -- Conclusions. Synopsis of Chaldean and Proclean systems -- Bibliography -- Index of ancient sources quoted -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (211 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781000166279 |
