Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul

In the present volume Proclus describes the ''creation'' of the soul that animates the entire universe. This is not a literal creation, for Proclus argues that Plato means only to convey the eternal dependence of the World Soul upon higher causes. In his exegesis of Plato''s text, Proclus addresses a range of issues in Pythagorean harmonic theory, as well as questions about the way in which the Wo...