NOTES
TO CHAPTER IV
1 Five
Stages of Greek
Religion (New York, 1930), p. 194
2 Ibid.,
p. 155.
3 “Philosophy”
in The Legacy of Greece,
ed. RWE Livingstone (Oxford, 1937), pp. 92-93.
4 Cp.
also Gilson’s opinions in Being and
Sore Philosophers, pp. 20-28, on the substitution of religion for
philosophy in Plotinus.
5 Th.
Pl., I, 79.
6 In
Parm., col. 948, italics
ours.
7 In
Alc., col. 284-85.
8 Ibid.,
col. 455-56.
9 De
prov., col. 158-60.
10 In
Tim., II, 246.
11 Ibid.,
II, 212.
12 Merlan,
op. cit., pp. 27,
49-50. Robin proposed a similar
interpretation of Plato himself, but its probability is denied by Ross;
cp. Plato’s
Theory of Ideas, pp. 213-15.
13 Cp.
De dec. dub., col.
121.
14 Ibid.,
col. 142.
15 El.
Th.; references are to the
propositions.
16 De
dec. dub., col. 112.
17 De
malorum subsistentia,
col. 230-39.
18 This
was Proclus’s own belief as related by
Marinus, in Rosán, op. cit., p. 29.
19 Cp.
G. Verbeke, L’Évolution de la dogma du
pneuma di stoicisme a S. Augustin (Paris, 1945), p. 384; Dodds, op.
cit.,
pp. 313-21; A.H. Armstrong. “The Greek
Philosophical Background of the Psychology of St. Thomas” (London,
1952), pp.
7-8.
20 In
Tim., III, 238.
21 Ibid.,
III, 277.
22 Cp.
In Remp., II, 304, and Th. Pl.,
II, 83.
23 Th.
Pl., I, 327-28.
24 Ibid.,
I, 256-57.
25 Ibid.,
I, 361.
26 In
Parm., col. 1029-30.
27 Th.
Pl. I, 73, italics ours.
28 Robert
J. Henle, S.J., Saint Thomas and
Platonism (The Hague 1956), p. 402.
In this work Father Henle includes an excellent discussion of
that
critique of Platonism in terms of its epistemology advanced by Thomas
Aquinas. Aquinas, we may note, in his
last years became familiar with Proclus’s Elements of Theology
and cited
a considerable amount of material from it in his commentary on the
Proclian Liber
de Causis; cp. Angelus Walz, O.P., Saint Thomas Aquinas, A
Biographical Study, tr. Sebastian Bullough O.P. (Westminister, Md.,
1951),
pp. 103-04.
29 Brett’s
History of Psychology, ed.
R.S. Peters (London, 1953), pp. 230-31.
