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Ioane Petritsi, a twelfth-century Georgian philosopher, translated from Greek into Georgian The Elements of Theology of the Neoplatonist Proclus (fifth
century) and wrote a Commentary on the entire ...
Ioane Petritsi, a twelfth-century Georgian philosopher, translated from Greek into Georgian The Elements of Theology of the Neoplatonist Proclus (fifth
century) and wrote a Commentary on the entire text, with a preface and a postface.
Petritsi tried to prove the priority of the Proclean One over all other ontological hypostases, its transcendence and its omnipresence, together with the
thesis that all things depend on the One, including even matter. In his Commentary, Petritsi also referred to other works of Proclus besides The Elements
of Theology, as well as to many other ancient Greek philosophers.
Although Petritsi's Commentary is an important milestone in the history of the medieval Christian philosophical interpretations of ancient Platonism, to
date, this text written in Old Georgian has remained almost unknown for western scholarship. This is the first time that the complete text of Petritsi's
Commentary is being published in a western language.
The present book provides a German translation of the complete text, with an introduction, notes, indices and bibliography.
