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On providence Proclus ; translated by Carlos Steel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Proclus, approximately 410-485, author.
- Series:
- Ancient commentators on Aristotle
- Standardized Title:
- De providentia et fato et eo quod in nobis. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Providence and government of God--Early works to 1800.
- Providence and government of God.
- Fate and fatalism--Early works to 1800.
- Fate and fatalism.
- Free will and determinism--Early works to 1800.
- Free will and determinism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 126 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press 2007.
- Summary:
- "'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? Not with standing 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Textual Emendations
- TRANSLATION
- Notes
- Bibliography English-Greek
- Glossary Greek-English Index
- Index of Passages Cited
- Subject
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [111]-116) and indexes
- Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement
- Other Format:
- Original
- ISBN:
- 9781472552129
- OCLC:
- 1138646165
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