Ten problems concerning providence Proclus ; translated by Jan Opsomer and Carlos Steel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proclus, approximately 410-485, author.

Contributor:

Opsomer, Jan, editor.

Steel, Carlos G., editor.

Series:

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

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, 183 pages).

Place of Publication:

London Bristol Classical Press 2012.

Summary:

"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

Contents:

Conventions

Preface

Introduction

Translation

Notes

Philological Appendix

Bibliography

Index of Passages

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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

ISBN:

9781472552143

OCLC:

922786600

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.