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2020-03-25 NSPRM - Proclus / Thomas Taylor - Theology of Plato (Book 6, Chap 22; Book 7, Chap 1) - The Mundane Self-Energizing Life of Philosophy

Synopsis Pierre leads the Noetic Society Parmenides study group through another session 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 compare Book 6, Chap 22 (written by Proclus) and Book 7, Chap 1 (written by Thomas Taylor, since Proclus' original Book 7 had been lost). (Doing this had been our 'homework' for today.) This was our 2nd Parmenides/Theology class using (free) online video-conferencing (Jitsi.org). The first was on Monday (2 days ago) but I was not in attendance, and do not have a recording. I am tagging this and all future video-conference-based items in our collection with "nsvc" so you can search for them later if you like. I have not yet figured out how to get a dependable video-recording (screencast) of Jitsi sessions. (In today's case -- and likely in many cases -- the video contributes little or nothing to the reasoning/meaning of the talk anyway.) But I am working on the possibility. Topic Highlights How well does T.Taylor understand Proclus? Do the descriptions of each of the 12 gods match? The w

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