Dissertation now available in MS Word

It has come to my attention that a number of people have been having difficulty downloading the PDF file of my dissertation, “The Metaphysics of Polytheism in Proclus.” My apologies to those who have had such problems. As a result, I have added to the Philosophy page an MS Word file of the dissertation for those unable to download the PDF. Please note that the pagination in this file does not correspond to the PDF, which is the version of record.

Another Article

I’ve posted my second article from Dionysius, “The Gods and Being in Proclus”, to the Philosophy page.

New article

The Philosophy page has been updated with my article from Méthexis, “The Intelligible Gods in the Platonic Theology of Proclus.”

Philosophy, Theology pages updated

I’ve updated the statements on the Philosophy and Theology pages to provide some of the foundation for the relationship between henology and ontology.

New Article

The Theology page has been updated with the link to an article of mine appearing in the May 2009 issue of Eye of the Heart, a journal published in print and online by La Trobe University. The article is “The Book of the Celestial Cow: A Theological Interpretation,” and can be read profitably in conjunction with the relevant entries in the Encyclopedia. I hope you enjoy it!

SAOC 37: The Book of the Dead or Going Forth by Day

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is making available, for free, T. G. Allen’s authoritative translation of this essential text, the only complete edition in English. I’d advise anyone seriously interested in Egyptian theology to take advantage of this offer while it lasts. The link’s at the bottom of the page.

Review

I wrote a brief review of an edited volume on the self in ancient and medieval philosophy for Metapsychology Online.

Dissertation now available

The full text of my dissertation, “The Metaphysics of Polytheism in Proclus,” is now available from the Philosophy page as a pdf file.

New article

I’ve added to the Philosophy page the full text of an article I wrote for an anthology on Deleuze and/or Guattari and environmental thought. It looks somewhat odd amidst all the Platonism, but does in fact concern aspects of henology that my work on ancient philosophy has not been able to address yet—specifically, ethical individuation—and so it belongs here. Also, I’ve noticed that some readers of this site share my interest in Deleuze.

Philosophy page updated

I’ve updated the project statement on the Philosophy page to include some remarks on the henadological theory of multiplicities or manifolds. The project statement will be updated as it becomes possible for me to infer general principles from my work on historical philosophers. In some cases, as with the theory of multiplicities, the project statement encapsulates ideas I’ve already explicated elsewhere and am prepared to consider as inherent to henadology as such; in other cases, as in the portion of the statement drawn from Metaphysics 987b18 & sq., I’m laying down the principles in advance, out of a preliminary intuition that they will prove to be henadologically essential.