Ten Doubts Concerning Providence And A Solution Of Those Doubts
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Ten Doubts Concerning Providence and a Solution of Those Doubts
Author | : Proclus,Thomas Taylor |
Publsiher | : Ares Publishers |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Good and evil |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924075138721 |
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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.
Proclus On the Existence of Evils
Author | : Carlos Steel,Jan Opsomer |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2014-04-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781472501035 |
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Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries. The central question addressed in the work is: how can there be evil in a providential world? Neoplatonists agree that it cannot be caused by higher and worthier beings. Plotinus had said that evil is matter, which, unlike Aristotle, he collapsed into mere privation or lack, thus reducing its reality. He also protected higher causes from responsibility by saying that evil may result from a combination of goods. Proclus objects: evil is real, and not a privation. Rather, it is a parasite feeding off good. Parasites have no proper cause, and higher beings are thus vindicated as being the causes only of the good off which evil feeds.
Miscellaneous Notes and Queries
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Questions and answers |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044092649631 |
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Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D003197390 |
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List of bibliographies and trans. in v. 1-12.
Two Treatises of Proclus the Platonic Successor
Author | : Proclus |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Good and evil |
ISBN | : UOM:39015074712459 |
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Catalogue of Books
Author | : William Brown |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044080262496 |
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Catalogue of the Library of the Providence Athenaeum
Author | : Providence Athenaeum |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044080251721 |
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