3. ANAMNESIS AND ANALOGY
In
this chapter we are concerned with exploring how the Proclian
epistemology and methodology are developed after the initial
distinction
between the objects of sense and of intelligence. First
of all we shall present some indication
of the Neoplatonic attitude towards Aristotle’s epistemology, which we
might
have presumed had already shown the untenability of a Platonic approach
to
reality. Then we shall consider Proclus’s
doctrine of intellection followed by a more extended treatment of the
basic
principle of “complete return” and some indication of the manner in
which the
system of concepts is to be elaborated.
