Author: ProclusPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Two Treatises of Proclus, the Plantonic Successor
Author: ProclusAnnotated Catalogue of an Unique and Exceptionally Complete Set of the Works of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, in 62 Volumes
Author: Orlin Mead SanfordProclus: Ten Problems Concerning Providence
Author: Carlos SteelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472501780
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
'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.
Thomas Taylor, the Platonist
Author: Thomas TaylorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691656509
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of Plato and Aristotle. Platonism, as Taylor saw it, was an informing principle, transmitted through a "golden chain of philosophers," a doctrine received by Socrates and Plato from the Orphic and Pythagorean past and transmitted to the future. It emerged again and again, enriched in the School of Alexandria, in Renaissance art, in the works of Spenser, Shelley, Yeats. Kathleen Raine is well known as a poet. GEorge Mills Harper is Professor of English, University of Florida. Bollingen Series LXXXVIII. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
List of bibliographies and trans. in v. 1-12.
Catalogue of a collection of books formed by William G. Medlicott
Author: William Gibbons MedlicottPublisher:
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor
Author: ProclusPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781377850610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Hon. Albert G. Greene
Author: Albert Gorton GreenePublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Henry Bright, Esq., of Northampton, Mass.
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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