Procli in Platonis Parmenidem Commentaria III

ISBN-13: 9780199291823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 440 str.

Carlos Steel; Leen Van Campe

Opis

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' Commentary, the Parmenides provides the argumentative and conceptual framework for a scientific theology wherein all mythological discourse about the gods can be integrated. Its exposition was therefore the culmination of the curriculum of the Platonic school. This theological reading of the Parmenides persisted, through the medium of Ficino, until the nineteenth century. Previously this important text was only accessible in the edition of V. Cousin (Paris, 1864). This new critical edition is based on an exhaustive study of both the Greek tradition and the medieval Latin translation. This volume, the third and final one, contains Books VI and VII, and a complete set of indexes.

Recenzje

This Oxford Classical Text is the third and final volume of Carlos Steel's landmark project, the modern scholarly edition of Proclus' Commentary on the Parmenides, one of the most important philosophical works of Platonism... The edition is, of course, beautifully printed and bound by Oxford Sarah Klitenic Wear, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

O autorze

Carlos Steel is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Leuven. Leen Van Campe is a Post-Doctoral student at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven.