Elements of Theology by Proclus

Elements of Theology: the final descent of the soul and end of the course we discuss: – why do Platonist physics? – ET 209-211: Proclus on the descent…

Elements of Theology: Protective and Other Gods we discuss ET 154-158, wrapping up 151-154 on the functional roles of the gods, and going over 155-158, on roles that…

Elements of Theology: Unity, Cause of Causes and Being-Life-Nous We discuss propositions 100 to 102 of the Elements of Theology and go into: – How does Unity ground…

Elements of Theology: Functions of the Gods We start ET 151-158 on the different functions of the gods. In this class we cover 151, father gods; 152, generative/fertile…

Elements of Theology: The Structure of Divine Orders In this video we discuss prop. 146-150 of the Elements of Theology, which present the structure of Divine orders, that…

Elements of Theology: The Presence of the Gods We discuss prop. 141-145, concentrating on 142, which discusses how the gods are present to all things. 143 uses this…

Elements of Theology: Being as the Unity of the Gods we go over prop. 138-140, focusing on how being can be understood as the Unity of the many…

Elements of Theology: Gods and their Primary Participants we discuss ET 134-136, on the relationship between providence and nous, henads and beings and the order of henads and…

Elements of Theology: Order of Divine Processions we discuss propositions 130-133, which are theorems on the relationships between prior and posterior members of Divine orders and between the…

Elements of Theology: the Bodies of the Gods We discuss prop. 127-129, on the simplicity, self-sufficiency and participants of the gods. We touch on: – Where does the…

Elements of Theology: Procession of the Gods We discuss propositions 125-126, including: – the three different modes of divine presence – the notion of idiotes, individuality, and it's…

Elements of Theology: Divine Knowledge and Providence We discuss propositions 122-124, and before our discussion I present Proclus' full view of divine knowledge as akin to the self-knowledge…

The Elements of Theology: The Gods as Values We discuss prop. 119-122 of the Elements of Theology touching upon the way that each God is a goodness or…

Elements of Theology: The Gods as Unities We start discussing the nature of the gods considering prop. 113-118 of the Elements.

Elements of Theology: Overview of the System of Orders We kick off the discussion of Part 2 of the Elements by discussing prop. 108-112, which give the reader…

Elements of Theology: All in All and Appendix We discuss prop. 103, on how all things are contained in the metacausal principles Being, Life and Nous and go…

Elements of Theology: Infinity and Causes We take a look at propositions 95-99, wrapping up the subject of infinity and entering into the final propositions on Unity as…

Elements of Theology: Limit, Infinity, Divine Nous and True Being We discuss ET 159-161 on how the orders of the gods are constituted by Limit and Infinity and…

Elements of Theology: The Orders of the Gods We finish the propositions on the gods, looking at ET 162-165 on the different groups of henads responsible for different…

Elements of Theology: on Nous We start the section on Nous with an overview of its meanings and translation difficulties and already go over propositions 166 and the…

Elements of Theology: The Nature of Nous We go over ET 167-170 (beginning) 167: the nature of nous as what makes itself known 168: insight shows itself to…

Elements of Theology: Unity and Multiplicity in Nous We look at Prop. 170 + 171 on the how each Nous is distinguished by being the knowledge of all…

Elements of Theology: Causality of Nous we discuss prop. 172-175, with a special focus on 174, which shows that Nous is just as much a cause of being…

Elements of Theology: The Forms in Nous we discuss prop. 176-178 of the ET, on how the Forms are in nous. We focus ok two arguments for why…