Proclus - Ten Questions Concerning Providence
Title | Proclus - Ten Questions Concerning Providence PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Steel |
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Release | 2014 |
Genre | Electronic book |
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Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning Providence
Title | Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning Providence PDF eBook |
Author | Proclus |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2012-11-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0715639242 |
The first English translation of this important treatise on providence and fate by the fifth-century Neoplatonist Proclus.
Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor
Title | Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor PDF eBook |
Author | Proclus |
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Pages | 196 |
Release | 1833 |
Genre | Good and evil |
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Ten Problems Concerning Providence
Title | Ten Problems Concerning Providence PDF eBook |
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Pages | 183 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fate and fatalism |
ISBN | 9781472552143 |
"In this treatise 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. These problems, he admits, had been discussed a thousand times in and outside philosophical schools. Yet, as he put it, we too have to discuss them, not because we imagine that the philosophers before us have said anything valuable, but because our soul desires 'to speak and hear about these problems and wants to turn to itself and to discuss as it were with itself and is not willing to take arguments about these issues only from authorities outside'. Proclus exhorts his readers: we are to use his treatise as an opportunity to investigate these problems for ourselves 'in the secret recess of our soul' and 'exercise ourselves in the solutions of problems'. In fact, it makes no difference whether what we discuss has been said before by philosophers, so long as we express what corresponds to our own views. This exhortation may be the best presentation of the translation of this wonderful treatise from late antiquity."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning Providence
Title | Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning Providence PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Steel |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-04-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1472501780 |
'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.
The Two Treatises of Proclus
Title | The Two Treatises of Proclus PDF eBook |
Author | Proclus Diadochus |
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Pages | 186 |
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ISBN | 9780598535108 |
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
Title | 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 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 504 |
Release | 1816 |
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