On First Principles

The masterwork of Damascius, last head of the Athenian school, the Problems and Solutions concerning First Principles presses Neoplatonic metaphysics to its limit.

With relentless rigour he asks whether the first principle can be spoken of at all, finding even the One insufficient and pointing beyond it to an utterly ineffable source — the most probing treatment of the unsayable in all Neoplatonism.