2659:-

Funktionen begränsas av dina webbläsarinställningar (t.ex. privat läge).

Uppskattad leveranstid 7-11 arbetsdagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249:-

256 sidor
2003

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.

Författare: Diadochus Proclus, Jan Opsomer, Professor Carlos Steel
Format: Inbunden
ISBN: 9780715631980
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 256
Utgivningsdatum: 2003-04-01
Översättare: Professor Carlos Steel Jan Opsomer
Förlag: Bristol Classical Press