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	Proclus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 – April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος Próklos ho Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, and considered the last major Greek philosopher, whose influence was felt throughout the Roman provinces, Byzantium, and in translation, by the later Islamic philosophers.
		Because of Christian persecution, the knowledge of the Hellenic religion was fading; Proclus staunchly defended paganism and critized Christianity, on many grounds like its eschatological beliefs on the end of the world (Neo-Platonism held the world and universe to be eternal).
		Proclus wrote on a miscellany of non-philosophical subjects such as astronomy, mathematics, and the subject of his earliest education in Xanthus, grammar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proclus (1023 words)

	Patriarch Proclus of Constantinople - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the death of Sisinnius, the famous Nestorius succeeded, and early in 429, on a festival of Virgin Mary, Proclus preached the celebrated sermon on the Incarnation inserted in the beginning of the Acts of the council of Ephesus.
		Proclus replied next year in the celebrated letter known as the Tome of Proclus, which he sent to the Eastern bishops asking them to sign it and to join in condemning the doctrines arraigned by the Armenians.
		Proclus replied that while he desired the extracts subjoined to his Tome to be condemned, he had not attributed them to Theodore or any individual, not desiring the condemnation of any person.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proclus_of_Constantinople (572 words)

	20th WCP: Mathematics as Paideia in Proclus
		For Proclus the importance of mathematics in that curriculum could hardly be over-emphasized because he took it as self-evident that it provides the key which opens the door to the realm of intelligible being.
		It is obvious, however, that Proclus is not troubled by any sceptical doubts when he concludes that the birth-pangs and subsequent offspring of the soul must yield manifestations (ekphaneis) of eternal forms abiding in her.
		Thus Proclus is clearly committed to saying that these sciences and their objects somehow depend for their existence on the soul, and yet that such objects are themselves real and substantial.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciClea.htm (2977 words)

	PROCLUS OR PROCULUS - LoveToKnow Article on PROCLUS OR PROCULUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although possessed of ample means, Proclus led a most temperate, even ascetic life, and employed his wealth in generous relief of the poor.
		In addition to the epitaph already mentioned, Proclus was the author of hymns, seven of which have been preserved (to Helios, Aphrodite, the Muses, the Gods, the Lycian Aphrodite, Hecate and Janus, and Athena), and of an epigram in the Greek Anthology (Anthol.
		The Xpno-rouaOta ypauparLd~ by a Proclus, who is identified by Suldas with the Neoplatonist, is probably the work of a grammarian of the 2nd or 3rd century, though WilamowitzMOllendorif (Philolog.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PR/PROCLUS_OR_PROCULUS.htm (2198 words)

	Plato Transformed - Proclus: biography
		Proclus, the most important philosopher of the fifth century AD, was born in 409/10 or 411/12 AD in Byzantium, though both his parents were of Lycian origin.
		Indeed, the fact that Proclus and his contemporaries were in the first place ‘commentators’ does not entail that they were scholars rather than authentic philosophers.
		Proclus was convinced that the Truth had been revealed by the gods on many occasions at many different places and had ‘encoded’ in obscure oracles, myths, and rituals.
	www.hiw.kuleuven.ac.be /dwmc/plato/proclus/probio.htm (684 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Proclus
		Proclus came to the fore in the time of Atticus, the Patriarch of Constantinople who succeeded (406) Arsacius who had been intruded upon the patriarchal throne after the violent deposition of St.
		"Proclus was a Lector at a very early age, and, assiduously frequenting the Schools, became devoted to the study of rhetoric.
		Proclus replied in an epistle (often called the "Tome of St. Proclus"), in which he required the propositions to be condemned.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12449b.htm (408 words)

	Proclus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Proclus was not entirely satisfied with the education he was receiving in philosophy in Alexandria so, while still a teenager, he moved from Alexandria to Athens where he studied at
		Proclus had access to books which are now lost and others, already lost in Proclus's time, were described based on extracts in other books available to Proclus.
		Proclus was not a creative mathematician; but he was an acute expositor and critic, with a thorough grasp of mathematical method and a detailed knowledge of the thousand years of Greek mathematics from Thales to his own time.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Proclus.html (1299 words)

	Proclus' Life and Teachings
		He believed the true philosopher should pay homage to the gods of all nations, becoming "a priest of the entire universe." He was initiated into a number of mystery schools, composed hymns to the gods, fasted in honor of the Egyptian divinities, and practiced theurgy.
		Proclus took the complex metaphysics of Iamblichus to even greater lengths.
		Proclus, like his teacher Syrianus, identifies the Demiurge (the Creator God, the father and maker of the universe) with the divine Nous.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Neoplatonism/Proclus-lifeof.html (860 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.05.21
		Proclus refers to Timaeus as a Pythagorean (IT I, 1.25-27), by which he means that there is also a theological import to these demonstrations.
		As Proclus goes on to tell us, the world is "in virtue of its body, wholly becoming, and yet Plato bestows on it another aspect, its quality of being not originated, since the world is also a god" (L. quoting Proclus, IT I 276).
		As Proclus tells us, the universe "owing to its generation in the whole of time is always in the process of becoming, always beginning to be, and always in possession of its perfection" (IT 281.27-282.4).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-05-21.html (2258 words)

	Plato Transformed - Proclus: bibliography
		Proclus on the innate knowledge of the soul, in: [1997.04], 293-309.
		Proclus in the final lemma of the first hypothesis of the 'Parmenides', in: [1999.03], 351-368.
		Proclus arabus and arabic islamic philosophy, in: [2000.03], 553-570.
	www.hiw.kuleuven.ac.be /dwmc/plato/proclus/probiblio.htm (12815 words)

	Chapter 4. Reversion in the Corporeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The success of Proclus' argument for immortality is tied to the success he has enjoyed in puzzling out the hierarchy of corporeal and incorporeal causes at work in the human body.
		Proclus' corporeal causes rise no higher than simple self-motion, and not even that rudimentary degree of dynamism is guaranteed to be entirely corporeal.
		Proclus does not detail the living functions he thought to be self-motivated, so it's hard to guess just which self-motions he imagined the body capable of executing.
	mbdefault.org /4_reversion (1389 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.12.07
		Equally important for shaping Proclus' views is the rejection of the teaching of Plotinus that "matter is the origin of all evil; it is evil as such" (p.
		As indicated already, Proclus sides with Peripatetic orthodoxy against Plotinus and reasserts the Aristotelian definition of contrariety so that matter neither is the cause of evil nor is itself evil.
		Proclus writes: "Therefore it is appropriate to call such generation a parasitic existence (parupostasis), in that it is without end and unintended (askopon), uncaused in a way (anaition pôs and indefinite (aoriston)." (50.29-31).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-12-07.html (1493 words)

	PROCLUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Proclus is one of the brightest points on the Moon, and is the centre of a ray-system; there is a low central mountain.
		It was also mentioned in one of my many books on the Moon that in the early days of Selenology, observers reported that Proclus was a dark feature, not what it is today being one of the brightest on the Moon.
		The crater Proclus has also had a history of fluctuating in albedo intensity in just a few hours time while other bright features remain constant.
	www.ltpresearch.org /proclus.htm (777 words)

	Proclus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Proclus is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Proclus, quoting Orpheus, says that when Persephone is united with the celestial Zeus she is then Demeter-Kore, but that when united with Pluto or Hades she is Kore-Persephone.
		Proclus speaks of her as "weaving the diacosm of life" (Cratylus), and Claudianus tells of her weaving a robe for Demeter in which "she marks out the procession of the elements and the paternal seats with her needle, according to the laws of Mother Nature."
	www.experiencefestival.com /proclus (1468 words)

	Chapter 3. Proclus' Elements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Elements of Theology is Proclus' systematic exposition of Neoplatonism.
		The text of Proclus' Elements consists of two hundred and eleven Neoplatonic propositions, organized by a method similar to that which mathematicians use in the construction of mathematical proofs.
		Proclus will proceed to interpret this result as support for a theory in which the soul undergoes an unceasing cycle of reincarnations.
	mbdefault.org /3_elements (2186 words)

	Proclus - Links
		It will show you, amongst other things, where Proclus was born and inform you that a crater on the moon has been named after him.
		Terse lemma on Proclus in the Ecole glossary.
		Spira Solaris, The Chaldean Oracles, Proclus, and Johannes Kepler
	www.kheper.net /topics/Neoplatonism/Proclus-links.html (283 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Proclus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 – April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος Próklos ho; Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, and considered the last major Greek philosopher, whose influence was felt throughout the Roman provinces, Byzantium, and in translation, by the later Islamic philosophers.
		By combining his own views with those of his teachers — Plutarch, Syrianus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus —; and comprehensively systematizing them, Proclus' Neoplatonic idealism dominated Neo-Platonic discourse for centuries afterward.
		His work inspired the New England Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who declared in 1843 that, in reading Proclus, "I am filled with hilarity & spring, my heart dances, my sight is quickened, I behold shining relations between all beings, and am impelled to write and almost to sing."
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Proclus (1037 words)

	History of Medieval Philosophy 090 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		PROCLUS (410-485) is the most influential and characteristic representative of Athenian Neo-Platonism.
		tion though powerless to create, Proclus embodies as it were in himself all the successive phases of the evolution of Neo-Platonism.
		Upon this system of metaphysics Proclus engrafts a mystic psychology; its basic principles being the ecstatic illumination of the soul by God and the deification of the soul by (polytheistic) religious practices (Plotinus and Iamblichus).
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/homp090.htm (579 words)

	AllRefer.com - Proclus (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		As a partisan of paganism he was forced to leave Athens, but he returned at the end of a year.
		He kept the elements of Plotinus, but introduced a principle of triadic development in the series of emanations; the three stages are an original, an emergence from the original, and a return in a lower form to the original.
		Proclus differed from Plotinus in regard to the origin of matter, which he held to emerge from the first emanation rather than from the plastic forces.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Proclus.html (241 words)

	baeck.html
		Proclus himself speaks of the "miraculous numbers," [überwesentlichen Zahlen] which are a determining part of his system.
		For Proclus, all dialectical cognition is a cognition of the triadic movement, i.e.
		For Proclus, movement is threefold, in accordance with the triadic process of growth: the circular, which befits the uppermost of what emerges, the spiral-shape of the turning back, and finally the straight line of the abiding.
	www.wbenjamin.org /baeck.html (7086 words)

	Proclus was born around 410AD in Byzantium (Constantinople, now Istanbul) and died in 485AD, Athens
		The father of Proclus was an advocate lawyer in the Byzantine courts.
		Proclus appears to be so fascinated by the Geometric system of propositions and proofs, that he uses this system as a format for his religious writing, Elements of Theology, as well as in his work on Aristotelian Physics.
		Proclus describes mathematical objects as being within understanding which is somewhere between the Intellect and physical existence.
	www.southernct.edu /~pinciuv/mat530pr2.html (799 words)

	Bert VAN DEN BERG: ‘Becoming like God’ according to Proclus’ Interpretations of the Timaeus, the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For Proclus, this takes the form of a return to the divine demiurgical Intellect in which the soul finds rest and is able to contemplate the Forms.
		Proclus puts his trust in mystery rites that include ritual purifications, like the Eleusinian Mysteries and the rites connected with the Chaldaean Oracles.
		In a next stage the now godlike Proclus was able to contemplate the Forms which are in the divine Mind.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/02mtg/abstracts/Vdberg.html (457 words)

	Hippopede Coffman Deposit #12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Proclus (410 - 485 A.D.) was a Greek mathematician who is best known for his Commentaries on the First Book of Euclid's Elements.
		In the tradition of his time, Proclus was buried near his teacher and mentor, and not with his family.
		Note: The Hippopede of Proclus should not be confused with the Hippopede of Eudoxus (c.
	curvebank.calstatela.edu /hippopede/hippopede.htm (499 words)

	GNU-Darwin: blackout anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yeah, and the fact is that whatever proclus says is axiomatically true; no supporting evidence is needed.
		Learn from proclus, young grasshoppers, his kung-fu style is powerful yet easy to learn and duplicate.
		For those of us who realize that proclus is all about proving himself right and his opponents wrong, this is no surprise.
	www.advogato.org /article/757.html (3984 words)

	Euclid's Geometry: Proclus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Proclus: 410-485 A.D. Proclus was trained at Alexandria and then moved to Athens, where he devoted himself to Neo-Platonic philosophy, and became the head of that school:
		In Proclus' opinion, mathematics was a means to an end: an exercise to prepare young minds for the philosophical life.
		We all know that geometry has a multitude of practical applications, but to large degree it is still taught for the same reasons that Proclus had in mind: propaedeusis.
	mathforum.org /geometry/wwweuclid/proclus.htm (170 words)

	Alibris: Proclus
		Proclus, head of the Philosophy School at Athens for fifty years, was one of the leading philosophical figures in Late Antiquity.
		Lucas Siorvanes here introduces Proclus to English-language readers, discussing his metaphysics and theory of knowledge and focusing in particular on his Neo-Platonism.
		The earliest surviving version of Tetrabiblos is the paraphrase attributed to Proclus the Philosopher (412-485).
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Proclus (708 words)

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