Proclus' Commentary on the First Book of Euclid translated by Thomas Taylor
New book - pick up a bargain!\n \n\nProclus\u2019 Commentary on the First Book of Euclid\u2019s Elements \n\n \n\nWith a four part dissertation on Ideas, Syllogism, Soul and the True End of Geometry\n\n \n\n420pp ISBN 978-1-898910-282 Translated by Thomas Taylor\n\n \n\n \n\nProclus\u2019 highly mystical commentary on Euclid\u2019s Elements, in which the course of the first book is treated as pathway to the vision of \u201Creal being\u201D: To be able to see what these commentaries reveal it is necessary to energise the spiritual intuition, relying on innate ideas. It is by mathesis, or as Taylor says, the \u2018reminiscence of the eternal reasons resident in the soul\u2019, that the innate ideas are evoked. So by mathesis, the soul withdraws from the outer realm of sensible images, and crosses over to intelligible reality. Once the geometrical abstractions collected up from exterior images, by the discipline of mathesis, a.
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