Against Proclus's "On the eternity of the world, 6-8" Philoponus ; translated by Michael Share.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philoponus, John, active 6th century, author.

Contributor:

Share, Michael John, editor.

Series:

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Standardized Title:

De aeternitate mundi contra Proclum. Book 6-8. English

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Proclus, approximately 410-485. De aeternitate mundi.

Proclus.

Cosmology.

Eternity.

Creation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 200 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press 2005.

Summary:

"This is one of the most interesting of all post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical texts, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Christianity, AD 529, when the Emperor Justinian closed the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. Philoponus in Alexandria was a brilliant Christian philosopher, steeped in Neoplatonism, who turned the pagans' ideas against them. Here he attacks the most devout of the earlier Athenian pagan philosophers, Proclus, defending the distinctively Christian view that the universe had a beginning against Proclus' eighteen arguments to the contrary, which are discussed in eighteen chapters. Chapters 6-8 are translated in this volume."--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 [155]-156) and indexes

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781472551825

OCLC:

654263498