A possibilidade de conhecimento na Filosofia Procleana

Abstract

Characterized by circularity, Proclus’philosophy is grounded in unity as the first cause that is imparticipable and unknowable. Faced with this feature, the presente study adresses the problem of how it is possible to know the diferente hypostases, given that knowledge is defined as knowledge of causes, while the first cause itself is unknowable. Drawing on the selected theoretical framawork, the work unfolds over six chapters. The first explores Proclus’interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides, highlighting both differences and similarities, and showing how the Diadoch’s system takes shape from a logical dialogue. The second chapter deepens the central problema by examining the imparticipable and unknowable dimensions of the first cause, as well as the posible ways of speaking about and apprehending it. The chapter three focus on the hypostases of the noûs and the soul, outlining their fundamental categories, since upon them rest the essential modes of human being and knowing. In chapter, Proclus’system is presented as a network of relations grounded in the movement of procession. The four chapter turns to matter, treated as the final term of the Proclean system, and considers how it relates to the other hypostases, showing that it, too, is integrated into the movement os procession and thus has a share in the One. The fifth chapter adresses the types of apprehension of reality, emphasizing that knowledge constitutes a specific modes of apprehension linked to human participation in the soul and noûs. Finally, the sixth chapter examines the nature of the human, demonstrating that humanity encompasses all the hypostases and mirrors the entire Proclean system. By likeness, then, the human being is capable of knowing every hypostasis. In concludes that knowledge is indeed posible for human beings, precisely because of their likeness to each of the system’s hypostases.