Medieval · AD 412–485
Who influenced Proclus?
Influences and legacy
The last great Neoplatonist system-builder, whose Elements fed Christian and Islamic metaphysics.
Proclus was influenced by Iamblichus, and went on to influence Pseudo-Dionysius. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Proclus?
Proclus, called the Successor, was one of the last major philosophers of classical antiquity and built one of the most elaborate systems of Neoplatonism.
Through later readers and translators he influenced Byzantine, early Islamic and scholastic philosophy and German idealism. Hegel called his Platonic Theology the true turning point from ancient philosophy to Christianity.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Proclus?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Iamblichus c. 245–325
Who did Proclus influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Proclus.
- Pseudo-Dionysius c. 5th–6th c.
The line of teachers behind Proclus
The longest documented line of influence ending at Proclus runs 9 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Proclus
Indirect influences
- Through Iamblichus: Porphyry
The second generation
Proclus by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 18
- Thinkers downstream
- 123
- Wikipedia languages
- 48 — #41 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Proclus
- Who influenced Proclus?
- Iamblichus.
- Who did Proclus influence?
- Pseudo-Dionysius.
- When did Proclus live?
- AD 412–485. The map files Proclus under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Proclus card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Proclus in 48 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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