Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3

Dragos Calma, Ph.D. (2008), Sorbonne University – Paris, is Associate Professor of Medieval Philosophy at University College Dublin. On Neoplatonism, he has published Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages (Brepols, 2 vols, 2016), Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes (Brill, 3 vols, 2019-2021) and, in collaboration with Evan King, The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics. Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio on Proclus’ Elements of Theology (Brill, 2021).

"The present set of three volumes serves as a valuable supplement to some of the recent general studies of Proclus’ influence by collecting detailed evidence regarding the transmission and reconfiguration of his doctrines in many later writers. [...] There are no really weak links in the chain, even including the writings of the younger scholars. The general level of the best contributions is extremely high, and Dragos Calma is to be congratulated in assembling such a collection and bringing this remarkable set of three volumes to its conclusion." - Stephen E. Gersh, Aestimatio, Vol. 3 no. 1 (2022).

• Notes On Causes and the Noetic TriadDragos CalmaPart 1 CausesSection 1 One and Participation1 Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Platonic DialecticsJan Opsomer2 Substantia stans per essentiam suam: Proclus et l’ auteur du De causis sur les êtres qui se constituent eux-mêmesCarlos Steel3 Regards croisés sur la cause première: Plotin, Porphyre, Victorinus, Saloustios, ProclusAnca Vasiliu4 L’ Être premier—entre Proclus et Denys l’ AréopagiteMarilena Vlad5 Proclus’ Reception in Maximus the Confessor, Mediated through John Philoponus and Dionysius the Ps.-Areopagite: A Case Study of Ambiguum 7Jonathan Greig6 Henads as Divine Images: The Epistemological and Ontological Significance of Inner Light and Creation of a New Subjectivity in Ioane Petritsi’s MetaphysicsLevan Gigineishvili7 Cause and Effect in Petritsi’s Commentary on Proclus’ Elements of TheologyLela Alexidze8 Virtus and Causae Primordiales in Berthold’s ExpositioEzequiel LudueñaSection 2 Causality and Free Will9 Causalité et pouvoir: autour des traces du Liber de causis dans la Métaphysique d’ AvicenneOlga Lizzini10 God’s Existence and Essence: The Liber de causis and School Discussions in the Metaphysics of AvicennaAmos Bertolacci11 The Causal Efficacy of Nature in the Neoplatonica ArabicaBethany Somma12 Thomas d’ Aquin, l’ étiologie proclusienne, et la théorie du concours de Dieu à la causalité naturelleJean-Luc Solère13 Deux modèles de causalité, deux théories de la liberté: À propos de deux interprétations de la proposition I du Livre des causesOlivier Boulnois14 “Agir par son être-même”: La question de la liberté créatrice dans le Liber de causis et sa réception chez Albert le GrandIsabelle MoulinPart 2 The Noetic Triad: Being, Life, Intellect15 The Early History of the Noetic TriadJohn Dillon16 Some Overlooked Sources of the Elements of Theology: The Noetic Triad, Epistrophé, Apokatastasis, Bodies, God, “All in All” and the Possible Reception of Origenian ThemesIlaria Ramelli17 Le chapitre XI[XII] du Liber de causis commenté par Albert le Grand: l’ unité de la cause et de son effet comme immanence réciproqueJulie Casteigt18 L’ exemple de la triade esse, vivum, homo dans les commentaires latins du XIIIe siècle au Liber de causis, entre réalisme des universaux et pluralité des formes substantiellesJulie Brumberg-Chaumont19 Self-Knowledge and Reditio Completa: Two Mid-13th-Century Interpretations of the Liber de causis, prop. XIV(XV) (Roger Bacon, Ps-Henry of Ghent)Thérèse Scarpelli Cory20 Marsilio Ficino on The Triad Being-Life-Intellect and the Demiurge: Renaissance Reappraisals of Late Ancient Philosophical and Theological DebatesDenis J.-J. RobichaudIndex