A Reckoning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 July 2026
In this concluding chapter, I provide an outline of the Proclan system drawn exclusively from his personal works. I then proceed to compare it to the philosophical system found in Plato’s dialogues along with the testimony regarding it in the Platonic tradition. I examine the two systems under the rubrics: One, Intellect, and Soul. I conclude by arguing that, while Proclus has elevated theology to a place beyond that which Plato himself endorses, nevertheless Proclus emerges as a highly accurate and philosophically sophisticated exegete of Plato and that for the most part, Plato and Proclus stand or fall together philosophically. In the notional Triad: Plato, Platonism, and Proclus, the “middle term” does unite the two “extremes,” even if the logos of each of these is different.
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