Elementy teologii

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A systematic work in Greek, modelled on Euclid’s Elements: each proposition is stated and then proved from earlier ones. It begins with the claim that every plurality somehow participates in unity, and goes on through cause and effect, the levels of being, the gods (henads), intellects and souls. Its form makes it the most compact account of late Neoplatonism. An Arabic reworking of parts of it circulated in the Latin Middle Ages as the “Book of Causes” and was ascribed to Aristotle. After William of Moerbeke translated the Elements into Latin in 1268, Thomas Aquinas recognised that the Book of Causes derived from Proclus.

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