Author: ProclusPublisher: Ares Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Ten Doubts Concerning Providence and a Solution of Those Doubts
Author: ProclusPublisher: Ares Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Proclus: 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.
Ten Doubts Concerning Providence and a Solution of Those Doubts
Author: Proclus (Diadochus.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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The Two Treatises of Proclus
Author: Proclus DiadochusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598535108
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor
Author: ProclusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Good and evil
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Interpreting Proclus
Author: Stephen GershPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131606042X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This is the first book to provide an account of the influence of Proclus, a member of the Athenian Neoplatonic School, during more than one thousand years of European history (c.500–1600). Proclus was the most important philosopher of late antiquity, a dominant (albeit controversial) voice in Byzantine thought, the second most influential Greek philosopher in the later western Middle Ages (after Aristotle), and a major figure (together with Plotinus) in the revival of Greek philosophy in the Renaissance. Proclus was also intensively studied in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages and was a major influence on the thought of medieval Georgia. The volume begins with a substantial essay by the editor summarizing the entire history of Proclus' reception. This is followed by the essays of more than a dozen of the world's leading authorities in the various specific areas covered.
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Additions Made to the Library of Congress, Since the First Day of November 1853
Author: Worship of the Heart
Author: Ehud Z. BenorPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791496325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Benor's study offers a systematic Aristotelian account of Maimonides' philosophy of religion that reconciles the ideals of rabbinic Judaism with the sensibilities of a medieval Jewish philosopher, coherently unifies his work, and shows where Maimonides' uncompromising radicalism presents enduring and challenging insights to the history and the philosophy of religion. Worship of the Heart explores Maimonides' contribution to the understanding of prayer, examining it against the background of two contrasting notions—dialogue and contemplation. The author argues that Maimonides integrates fundamental elements of these conceptions with his own insights to forge a mediating conception of prayer—a conception as constitutive of a world view.
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