Neoplatonic Virtue: Christ, Typhon, and the Chaos at the Center of the World
In this session of the Neoplatonic Virtue course, we continued reading Marinus’ Life of Proclus and explored how the cardinal virtues are integrated into his account fo the exercise of political virtue.
At the beginning, however, we took a detour when discrussing Proclus’ confrontation with political adversity, his “Herculean fortitude,” before the "Typhonian winds" that commentators identify with Christian influence. . From there, the discussion led us to Hesiod’s account of Typhon, Proclus’ interpretation of Typhon in his cosmology, and the Neoplatonic understanding of chaos at the center of the world and why Christianity might be understood as especially *typhonic*.
At the end we returned to the text and discussed some more details of Proclus' exercise of political virtue.
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