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Loading... Essays on the Metaphysics of Polytheism in Proclusby Edward Butler
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Frankly, I was unable to complete this book. It is far too philosophically technical for a lay reader. The only point that seemed clear is that Butler feels that Proclus did not wish the individuality of the gods to be swallowed up in the concept of the One. It also seemed clear that Proclus believed this to have been Plato's position as well. Obviously not a good starting place for a study of Neoplatonism. no reviews | add a review
The essays in this book provide the principal theoretical foundation for the "henadological" approach to theology in the polytheistic philosophy of religion, while in a wider perspective constituting the first stage in recovering the sense and significance of henology, the discourse concerning unity, in classical metaphysics. Includes the previously published articles "Polytheism and Individuality in the Henadic Manifold" (2005), "The Gods and Being in Proclus" (2008), "The Intelligible Gods in the Platonic Theology of Proclus" (2008), "The Second Intelligible Triad and the Intelligible-Intellective Gods" (2010), and "The Third Intelligible Triad and the Intellective Gods" (2012), as well as two previously unpublished bonus essays. No library descriptions found. |
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