Proclus: On the Existence of Evils - Couverture souple

Steel, Carlos

 
9781472557391: Proclus: On the Existence of Evils
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1472557395 ISBN 13 : 9781472557391
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

Carlos Steel is Emeritus Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Director of 'Aristoteles Latinus'.

Jan Opsomer is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1472557395
ISBN 13 
9781472557391
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
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