The Metaphysics of the Platonic Tradition - Tim Addey

Tim Addey, of the Prometheus Trust, will be introducing an outline of the metaphysics of the Platonic tradition, -which he holds as having its roots in the mythic writings of Homer and Hesiod -having been developed through the Pythagorean and Orphic schools, scientifically unfolded by Plato, and receiving its finest written flowering in late antiquity in the works of Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus and many others.

The One and the Gods unfold the divine summit of Platonic metaphysics.  The Platonic panorama describes, as far as is humanly possible, the universal order of all things, beginning with that which is most simple and beyond all definition, through the generations of all beings, and terminating in the indefiniteness of matter and space.

Addey aims to give the new student a framework from which to begin the serious study of the subject.  He aims to show how the orthodox understanding of Plato, based o…