The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 1 of 2) : $b translated from the Greek, to which a seventh book is added, in order to supply the deficiency of another book on this subject, which was written by Proclus, but since lost, also, a translation from the Greek of Proclus' Elements of theology, to which are added a translation of the treatise of Proclus, On providence and fate, a translation of extracts from his treatise, entitled, Ten doubts concerning — Plato — John Shaqi
The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 1 of 2) : $b translated from the Greek, to which a seventh book is added, in order to supply the deficiency of another book on this subject, which was written by Proclus, but since lost, also, a translation from the Greek of Proclus' Elements of theology, to which are added a translation of the treatise of Proclus, On providence and fate, a translation of extracts from his treatise, entitled, Ten doubts concerning
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A confutation of those who say that the first principle is not
according to Plato above intellect, and demonstrations from the
Republic, the Sophista, the Philebus, and the Parmenides, of the
superessential hypostasis[71] of _the one_.
CHAPTER V.
What the modes are of ascent to _the one_ according to Plato; and
that the modes are two, through analogy, and through negations.
Likewise, where Plato treats of each of these, and through what
cause.
CHAPTER VI.
By what, and by how many names Plato unfolds the ineffable
principle, and why he unfolds it by such and by so many names. And
how these names accord with the modes of ascent to it.
CHAPTER VII.
What the assertions are in the Republic concerning the first
principle, through its analogy to the sun; where also it is
shown, how it is celebrated as the good, and as the most splendid
of being. How the sun is the offspring of the good; and that
according to each order of divine natures, there is a monad
analogous to the first principle. And how the first principle is
the cause of all beings, and is itself prior to power and energy.
CHAPTER VIII.
What Plato in his Epistle to Dionysius says the first king is. And
admonitions, that the first God is discussed in that Epistle.
CHAPTER IX.
What the three conceptions are which are delivered [in that
Epistle] concerning the first king. How all things are about
him. How all things are for his sake. How he is the cause of all
beautiful things. What the order is of these conceptions. And from
what hypotheses they are assumed.
CHAPTER X.
How in the first hypothesis of the Parmenides, Plato delivers
the doctrine concerning _the one_, employing for this purpose
negations. And on what account the negations are such and so many.
CHAPTER XI.
How it is necessary to enter on the theory concerning _the one_,
through negations. And what disposition of the soul is most
adapted to discussions of this kind.
CHAPTER XII.
A celebration of _the one_, demonstrating through negative
conclusions that it is exempt from all the orders of beings,
according to the order delivered in the Parmenides.
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK III.
CHAPTER I.
That after the discussion in common of the one principle of
things, it is requisite to treat of the divine orders, and to show
how many they are, and how they are divided from each other.
CHAPTER II.
That the multitude of unities according to which the Gods have
their hypostasis, subsists after _the one_.
CHAPTER III.