Notice of Passing - John Cleary

cf. http://www.societyforancientgreekphilosophy.com/2009/04/notice-of-passing-john-cleary/

It is with sadness that we report to you the death of John Cleary this past Sunday from complications arising from a liver transplant. The official announcement of his death reads, in part: JOHN CLEARY, Harolds Cross, Dublin (and late of Ballycroy, Co. Mayo); Died April 12, 2009, at St. Vincents Hospital, (suddenly after a short illness, borne with great courage and dignity).

John was a long-time member of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy. He taught both at Boston College since 1981 and at the National University of Ireland – Maynooth since 1991. He was the author of many excellent books, including Aristotle and Mathematics: Aporetic Method in Cosmology and Metaphysics (published by Brill in 1995) and Aristotle on the Many Senses of Priority (published by Southern Illinois University Press in 1988), the editor of The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism (Louvain, 1997) and Traditions of Platonism: Essays in Honour of John Dillon (Ashgate, 1999), and author of numerous articles on ancient philosophy, including “Proclus as a Reader of Plato’s Timaeus”, in Reading Plato in Antiquity (edited by H. Tarrant & D. Baltzly, 2006) and “Proclus’s Philosophy of Mathematics”, in La Philosophie des Mathématiques de l’Antiquité tardive (edited by G. Bechtle & D. O’Meara, 2000). He was a founding editor of the Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy, served as executive secretary of Dublin Centre for Study of the Platonic Tradition, and was an active member of ISNS as well as SAGP. He was an influential scholar, an active citizen of our profession, and a truly good human being. He will be greatly missed.

Our thanks to Patrick Byrne, of Boston College; John Dillon, of Trinity College, Dublin; and John Finamore, of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, whose eloquent appreciation we have quoted (slightly edited) here.