NEGATIO NEGATIONIS LA NEOPLATONICUL PROCLOS
NEGATIO NEGATIONIS IN NEO-PLATONIST PROCLUS

Summary/Abstract: In his Commentary of Plato’s Parmenides (In Platonis Parmenidem VI), Proclus analyzes the state of the negations which express transcendence. Transcendence understood as negation implies the suppression of all the attributes circumscribed to being. At the end of our dialectical approach to reach the One through negation, we must abandon all inquiry, all questioning, all knowledge and its instruments, all discourse – even if it is entirely a negative discourse. In fact, the entire dialectical method, even if it operates by „way of negations”, is nothing but a preamble to the mystical union, removing whatever impedes the contemplation of the One. “It is with silence, then, that he brings to the completion the study of the One” (In Platonis Parmenidem VII).

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