Elements of Theology
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- Thomas Taylor
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text · 1 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~300,000 words · 1,404 passages
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What it is about
Two hundred and eleven propositions on the One, the hypostases and the return of all things to their source, proved one after another as though it were geometry.
Context and history
The form is the thesis: Proclus writes Neoplatonism in Euclid's manner, statement and proof, with no dialogue. The book had an unforeseen second life: an adaptation made in the Arabic world passed into Latin as the Liber de causis, and for centuries Europe read it as if it were by Aristotle. It was Aquinas who identified its origin, once he could set it beside this text in translation.
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IN ORDER TO SUPPLY THE DEnCIBXCY OF ANOTHER BOOK ON THIS SUBJECT, WHICH WAS WRITTEN BT PROCLVS, BUT SINCE LOST. ALSO, A TRANSLATION FROM THE GREEK OF PROCLUS' ELEMENTS OF THEOLOGY. TO ^HICR ABE ADDED A TRANSLATION OF THE TREATISE OF PROCLUS, 0Dn PtottiDence ann iTate; A TRANSLATION OF EXTRACTS FROM HIS TREATISE, ENTITLED, TEN DOUBTS CONCERNING PROVIDENCE; AND A TBANSLATION OF EXTRACTS FROM HIS TREATISE ON THE SUBSISTENCE OF EVIL | As preserved in the Bibliotkeca Gr. of Fabricim. BY THOMAS TAYLOR, A>Ji Ttn, trrt, *eu T»f tyytKif Xoyy, 2f»(, Mtu 9(01, fifcmm A«v<rr»yn$ w«iih). Euripides, There are, there are, though laugh the scoSSer may, Jove aiid die Gods, who mortal ills survey. umf nvt (mi toXAoi, uu xugioi «oXXm. Corinth. I. Cap. 8. v. 5. As there be GoD« many, and Lords many. TWO VOLUMES. :".'-• VOL. L ."rj. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, By J. J. Falpy, Tooke^s Court, Chancery Latu. fiXD SOLD BY MESSRS. LAW AND Co.; LONGMAN AND Co.; BALDWIN AND Co.; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. 18l6r TO WILLIAM MEREDITH, ESQUJRE^ yrno with a firmness and munificence, UNPARALLELED IN MODERN TIMES, HAS PATRONIZED THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLE, AND ITS ENGLISH PROMULGATOR; AS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF NO COMMON ESTEEM FOR HIS CHARACTER, AND A TRIBUTE OF THE WARMEST GRATTTDDE FOR HIS PATRONAGE, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY THE TRANSLATOR, THOMAS TAYLOR. INTRODUCTION. I REJOICE in the opportunity which is afforded me of presenting the truly philosophic reader, in the present work, with a treasure of Grecian theology ; of a theology, which was first mystically and symbolical
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