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Author | : Proclus, |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1472501470 |
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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.
Author | : Carlos Steel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1472501780 |
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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.
Author | : Proclus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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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 its text is not very accessible to the modern reader. It has survived only in a Latin medieval translation. This first English translation will bring the arguments he formulates again to the fore.
Author | : Proclus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Good and evil |
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Download Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Proclus |
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Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1816 |
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Download The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Tr. from the Greek Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Proclus |
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Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Neoplatonism |
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Author | : Proclus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Neoplatonism |
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Download The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Translated from the Greek Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Proclus |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2018-02-17 |
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ISBN | : 9781377850610 |
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Download The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Translated from the Greek: to which a Seventh Book [by the Translator] is Added, in Order to Supply the Deficiency of Another Book on this Subject, which was Written by Proclus, But Since Lost. Also a Translation ... of Proclus'Elements of Theology. To which are Added, a Translation of the Treatise of Proclus on Providence and Fate; a Translation of Extracts from His Treatise Entitled, Ten Doubts Concerning Providence; and a Translation of His Treatise on the Subsistence of Evil. ... By Thomas Taylor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Proclus Diadochus |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
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ISBN | : 9780598535108 |
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