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Proclus' commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The present volume, the fifth in the edition, presents Proclus' commentary on the Timaeus, dealing with Proclus' account of static and flowing time; we see Proclus situating Plato's account of the motions of the stars and planets in relation to the astronomical theories of his day. The volume includes a substantial introduction, as well as notes that will shed new light on the text.

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Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries. The central question addressed in the work is: how can there be evil in a providential world? Neoplatonists agree that it cannot be caused by higher and worthier beings. Plotinus had said that evil is matter, which, unlike Aristotle, he collapsed into mere privation or lack, thus reducing its reality. He also protected higher causes from responsibility by saying that evil may result from a combination of goods. Proclus objects: evil is real, and not a privation. Rather, it is a parasite feeding off good. Parasites have no proper cause, and higher beings are thus vindicated as being the causes only of the good off which evil feeds.

Good and evil --- Bien et mal --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Neoplatonism --- Academic collection --- 091 PROCLUS --- 091 =75 --- 1 <38> PROCLUS LYCIUS, DIADOCHUS --- 87.083 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--PROCLUS --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Grieks --- Griekse filosofie--PROCLUS LYCIUS, DIADOCHUS --- Klassieke literatuur: teksteditie --- 87.083 Klassieke literatuur: teksteditie --- 1 <38> PROCLUS LYCIUS, DIADOCHUS Griekse filosofie--PROCLUS LYCIUS, DIADOCHUS --- 091 =75 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Grieks --- 091 PROCLUS Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--PROCLUS