Proclus

American  

[proh-kluhs, prok-luhs] / ˈproʊ kləs, ˈprɒk ləs /

noun

1. a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.

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Proclus British  

/ ˈprəʊkləs, ˈprɒk- /

noun

1. ?410–485 _ad , Greek Neo-Platonist philosopher

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Proclus

In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man."

From Time Magazine Archive

Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Had Vergil had an opportunity to read Proclus, some of this might have made its way into his text, but it is unlikely that he would have absorbed the concept of discovery.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The Platonists’ doctrines of recurrence and reminiscence were not the real problem, however; both were endorsed by Proclus, who still wrote, as the Greeks did, in terms of discovery.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

And in Plotinus and Proclus the deification of mere reason is at any rate the dominant note; whatever protests the larger Greek nature in the former may from time to time offer.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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