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2018-12-26 NSPRM - Proclus - Theology of Plato (Book 3, Chap 1) - An Order for the Orders of the Gods

Synopsis Pierre leads the Noetic Society Parmenides study group through another morning of study. Lately we've been taking a break from the Parmenides, going through Proclus' Theology of Plato (*) instead, in order to see how Proclus lays out the 14 orders of gods implied in the Parmenides. Today we start into Book 3, and read completely through Book3's first chapter. Attendees Pierre, Regina, StephenD, Eldar, JulieH, Barbara, JeffS, DavidC Highlights (I did not catch all of Pierre's good questions -- went by too quickly. If you listen to this and can catch his questions again, please send them to me and I'll add them below.) Wholes (the first category in Parmenides' first hypothesis) PG (after para.4) : Why does he need this stuff, when he is talking of the gods? Gods: orders, sequence, similitude, monadic function How a monad functions: a) allows for dual-generative ideas, b) produces similars before dissimilars (para 3, 1st sent). You can't have different orders of gods without these (which is why he is setting this up now). Monads generating the orders of the gods (will come later) Ousia/"essence", power and energy P7: This allows him to connect the One to the Intelligibles P8.

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