Essays and Fragments of Proclus the Platonic Successor

The Thomas Taylor Series #18

by Proclus, Thomas Taylor (Translator)

Thomas Taylor was one of the outstanding translators of the philosophical writings of the Greeks and Romans, and also published several original works on philosophy and mathematics. Many of his important contributions in these fields have been long out-of-print and are extremely difficult to obtain, having been issued in very small editions. Most of Taylor's translations have an archaic elegance which preserves the spirit of the older authors in a manner not evident in more recent translations. Taylor also added notes and commentaries which give valuable insight into the essential meaning often obscure in the actual text. Contents: On Providence, Fate, and That Which is in our Power (1816); Ten Doubts Concerning Providence, and Their Solution; On the Subsistence of Evil (1833); Fragments of Proclus (1825); Marinus: The Life of Proclus (1788); and Seven Hymns of Thomas Taylor. See the many other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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First published March 11, 1988

About the author

Proclus Lycaeus (/ˈprɒkləs ˌlaɪˈsiːəs/; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485 AD), called the Successor (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος, Próklos ho Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Classical philosophers (see Damascius). He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism. He stands near the end of the classical development of philosophy, and was very influential on Western medieval philosophy (Greek and Latin).