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Epistle of Pope Sixtus (Xistus) III to Proclus, archbishop of Constantinople [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2022
This work includes a translation from Latin of the epistle of Pope Sixtus (Xistus) III to Archbishop Proclus of Constantinople (437), as well as an introductory article and historical and philological commentaries.
Anton Anashkin
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Love as Descent: Comparing the Models of Proclus and Dionysius through Eriugena

Religions, 2021
This paper explores the models of the providential-erotic descent in Neoplatonism and Christianity and the ethical consequences that these two models entail. Neoplatonic representative is an excerpt from Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades, where
Dimitrios A. Vasilakis
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Nature as an Instrumental Cause in Proclus

Apeiron, 2023
In this paper I focus on Proclus’ concept of the instrumental cause in his commentary on the Timaeus (In Tim.). Unlike earlier Neoplatonists who do not make much use of this type of causality, Proclus relates the instrumental cause to the hypostasis of ...
Rares Ilie Marinescu
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Proclus on the Forms as Paradigms in "Plato’s Parmenides: The Neoplatonic Response to Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Criticisms"

Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2022
This paper sets out to analyze Proclus’ exegesis of Socrates’ suggestion in Parmenides 132d1-3 that Forms stand fixed as patterns (παραδείγματα), as it were, in the nature, with the other things being images and likenesses of them.
Melina Mouzala
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Proclus on ἕνωσις: Knowing the One by the One in the Soul

Philosophies
At Plato’s insistence to become as godlike as one can, the Neoplatonists seek their salvation in union with the first principle they call the One, identifying this union as the highest end of philosophy.
Van Tu
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The Adaptation and Development of the Proclean Notion of Κατάβασις: From Proclus to Maximus the Confessor

Religions, 2021
This paper examines the impact of Proclus’ notion of divine descent, i.e., κατάβασις, on the formation of core theological doctrines in Pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor.
Kyeongyoon Woo
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Hellenic and Hellenistic Origins in the Aesthetics of Pseudo-Dionysius [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
Text This article studies the Hellenic and Hellenistic sources of Pseudo-Dionysius on Beautiful, and its purpose is to clarify the extent of the influence of the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus on aesthetics in the thought system of ...
Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi
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Plotinus the antipalamite [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2022
The synod of Constantinople of 1351 discussed six questions and answers concerning the Palamite doctrine of energies. Nikephoros Gregoras was condemned at the gathering and subsequently defended his position in his History of the Romans, where ...
Lauritzen Frederick
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The Assessment of Knowledge, or Whether We Possess Knowledge or Twofold Ignorance about Our Place in the Universe [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2021
The article aims to investigate the notion and foundation of the concept of knowledge to assess our place in the Universe via understanding of ourselves.
Pavlo Sodomora, Svitlana Yahelo
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Divergent Reconstructions of Aristotle's Train of Thought: Robert Grosseteste on Proclus' 'Elements of Physics'

Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval, 2023
The present paper discusses Grosseteste’s reception of Proclus’ Elements of Physics (EP) in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics VI. In the first section I examine the method with which Grosseteste reconstructs Aristotelian texts.
Socrates-Athanasios Kiosoglou
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