[PDF] Proclus On The Existence Of Evils eBook

Author : Carlos Steel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472501039

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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.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :

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Author : Radek Chlup
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521761484

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An introduction to the philosophical and religious thought of Proclus the Neoplatonist, one of the most complex thinkers of antiquity.

Author : James Henderson Collins II
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190266546

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This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students.

Author : Jonathan Greig
Publisher : Philosophia Antiqua
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004439054

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In 'The First Principle', Jonathan Greig examines the philosophical theology of the two Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius (5th-6th centuries A.D.), on the One as the first cause. Both philosophers address a tension in the Neoplatonic tradition: namely that the One was seen as absolutely transcendent, yet it was also seen as intimately related to other things as the source of their unity and being. Proclus' solution is to posit intermediate causes after the One, while Damascius posits a distinct principle, the 'Ineffable', above the One. This book provides a new, thorough study of the theories of causation that lead each to their respective position and reveals crucial insights involved in a rigorous negative theology employed in metaphysics.

Author : Pavlos Kontos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107161975

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Provides the first full study of Aristotle's notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.

Author : Pieter d' Hoine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0199640335

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Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last official "successors" of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of Antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range of topics and one of the most influential commentators on Plato of all times, the legacy of Proclus in the cultural history of the west can hardly be overestimated. This book introduces the reader to Proclus' life and works, his place in the Platonic tradition of Antiquity, and the influence his work exerted in later ages. Various chapters are devoted to Proclus' metaphysical system, including his doctrines about the first principle of all reality, the One, and about the Forms and the soul. The broad range of Proclus' thought is further illustrated by highlighting his contribution to philosophy of nature, scientific theory, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of language. Finally, also his most original doctrines on evil and providence, his Neoplatonic virtue ethics, his complex views on theology and religious practice, and his metaphysical aesthetics receive separate treatments. This book is the first to bring together the leading scholars in the field and to present a state of the art of Proclean studies today. In doing so, it provides the most comprehensive introduction to Proclus' thought currently available.

Author : Tushar Irani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107181984

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This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.

Author : John J. Cleary
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004113954

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This volume represents some of the activities of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from the academic year 1997-98. It contains nine colloquia that were hosted by eight different colleges and universities in the greater Boston area. Discussions of the works of Plato dominate this volume, with six of the nine colloquia based on Platonic texts. Appropriately, the colloquia begin with an analysis of division in the ancient atomists. Later, a study of truth in Aristotle gives a counterpoint to the Platonic interplay of drama and pedagogy or logic and rhetoric examined in papers about the "Theaetetus" and "Symposium." A presentation of Proclus's account of evil revisits some of the issues of sophistry and morality discussed in relation to Plato's "Republic" and "Euthydemus." Finally, the remaining Platonic papers are in a way not about Plato at all, but about Socrates and Xanthippe, supplementing Platonic dialogues with Xenophon and others. Underneath these discussions of ancient texts current modes of philosophy run along, providing a score of alternative interpretative schemes. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.