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Proclus Ten Problems Concerning Providence
Author | : Carlos Steel,Jan Opsomer |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781472501783 |
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'The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the interlocking wheels and the particular beings are like the things moved by the wheels, and all events are determined by an inescapable necessity. To speak of free choice or self determination is only an illusion we human beings cherish.' Thus writes Theodore the engineer to his old friend Proclus, one of the last major Classical philosophers. Proclus' reply is one of the most remarkable discussions on fate, providence and free choice in Late Antiquity. It continues a long debate that had started with the first polemics of the Platonists against the Stoic doctrine of determinism. How can there be a place for free choice and moral responsibility in a world governed by an unalterable fate? Proclus discusses ten problems on providence and fate, foreknowledge of the future, human responsibility, evil and punishment (or seemingly absence of punishment), social and individual responsibility for evil, and the unequal fate of different animals. Until now, despite its great interest, Proclus' treatise has not received the attention it deserves, probably because its text is not very accessible to the modern reader. It has survived only in a Latin medieval translation and in some extensive Byzantine Greek extracts. This first English translation, based on a retro-conversion that works out what the original Greek must have been, brings the arguments he formulates again to the fore.
Ten Problems Concerning Providence
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Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fate and fatalism |
ISBN | : 1472552148 |
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"In this treatise Proclus discusses ten problems on providence and fate, foreknowledge of the future, human responsibility, evil and punishment (or seemingly absence of punishment), social and individual responsibility for evil, and the unequal fate of different animals. These problems, he admits, had been discussed a thousand times in and outside philosophical schools. Yet, as he put it, we too have to discuss them, not because we imagine that the philosophers before us have said anything valuable, but because our soul desires 'to speak and hear about these problems and wants to turn to itself and to discuss as it were with itself and is not willing to take arguments about these issues only from authorities outside'. Proclus exhorts his readers: we are to use his treatise as an opportunity to investigate these problems for ourselves 'in the secret recess of our soul' and 'exercise ourselves in the solutions of problems'. In fact, it makes no difference whether what we discuss has been said before by philosophers, so long as we express what corresponds to our own views. This exhortation may be the best presentation of the translation of this wonderful treatise from late antiquity."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Proclus On Providence
Author | : Proclus, |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781472501479 |
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'The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the interlocking wheels and the particular beings are like the things moved by the wheels' and all events are determined by an inescapable necessity. To speak of free choice or self determination is only an illusion we human beings cherish. Thus writes Theodore the engineer to his old friend Proclus. Proclus' reply is one of the most remarkable discussions on fate, providence and free choice in Late Antiquity. It continues a long debate that had started with the first polemics of the Platonists against the Stoic doctrine of determinism. How can there be place for free choice and moral responsibility in a world governed by an unalterable fate? Notwithstanding its great interest, Proclus' treatise has not received the attention it deserves, probably because the text survived only in a Latin medieval translation and, in its original language, is not very accessible to the modern reader. This volume, the first English translation of the work, redresses this problem and once again brings the arguments he formulates to the fore.
The Six Books of Proclus the Platonic Successor on the Theology of Plato Tr from the Greek
Author | : Proclus |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015073686092 |
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Two Treatises of Proclus the Plantonic Successor
Author | : Proclus |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCLA:L0054907571 |
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Fate Providence and Moral Responsibility in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Thought
Author | : Pieter d’Hoine,Gerd Van Riel |
Publsiher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 809 |
Release | : 2014-03-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789058679703 |
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Essays on key moments in the intellectual history of the West This book forms a major contribution to the discussion on fate, providence and moral responsibility in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Through 37 original papers, renowned scholars from many different countries, as well as a number of young and promising researchers, write the history of the philosophical problems of freedom and determinism since its origins in pre-socratic philosophy up to the seventeenth century. The main focus points are classic Antiquity (Plato and Aristotle), the Neoplatonic synthesis of late Antiquity (Plotinus, Proclus, Simplicius), and thirteenth-century scholasticism (Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent). They do not only represent key moments in the intellectual history of the West, but are also the central figures and periods to which Carlos Steel, the dedicatary of this volume, has devoted his philosophical career.
The Six Books of Proclus
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Author | : Proclus |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Neoplatonism |
ISBN | : OCLC:1086924518 |
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Proclus Commentary on Plato s Republic
Author | : Dirk Baltzly,John F. Finamore,Graeme Miles |
Publsiher | : Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2022-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107154711 |
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The second volume of the first complete translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Republic.