Download or read book Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus written by Thomas Taylor and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus Thomas Taylor - Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus" is a short book of translations of fragments of Proclus by Thomas Taylor, the English Neoplatonist and translator of Aristotle, Plato and Orpheus.Proclus Lycaeus (412 - 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Classical philosophers. He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism. He stands near the end of the classical development of philosophy, and was very influential on Western Medieval Philosophy (Greek and Latin) as well as Islamic thought.