NUMBERING,NUMBERS, AND BEING: PROCLUS VERSUS PLOTINUS
NUMBERING,NUMBERS, AND BEING: PROCLUS VERSUS PLOTINUS

Summary/Abstract: Plotinus’ investigation into numbers has peculiar characteristics that cannot be confused with numbers’ ontological role in late Neoplatonism. However, since, in his inquiry on the nature of Being and numbers, Proclus explicitly calls Plotinus into question, the analysis of such a comparison can contribute to understanding some different speculative assumptions of the two philosophers. With this in mind, I will focus on two issues: the role accorded by Plotinus and Proclus to arithmetic, and the different ontological rank of numbers.

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