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245 00 Proclus :|bten problems concerning providence /
|ctranslated by Jan Opsomer and Carlos Steel.
264 1 London ;|aNew York :|bBloomsbury Academic,|c2012.
264 4 |c©2012
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490 1 Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
500 "Paperback edition first published 2014"--Title page
verso.
504 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
520 '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, one of
the last major Classical philosophers. 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 a place for free choice and moral
responsibility in a world governed by an unalterable fate?
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. Until now, despite 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 and in some extensive
Byzantine Greek extracts. This first English translation,
based on a retro-conversion that works out what the
original Greek must have been, brings the arguments he
formulates again to the fore.
546 Translated from the Ancient Greek.
588 0 Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed
April 14, 2014).
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700 1 Steel, Carlos G.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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776 08 |iPrint version:|tProclus : ten problems concerning
providence.|dLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic,
©2012|h183 pages|kAncient commentators on Aristotle
(London, England)|z9780715639245
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