Ebook: Philoponus: Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World 1-5
Author: Philoponus John, Proclus, Share Michael John
- Tags: Proclus -- approximately 410-485. -- De aeternitate mundi. Cosmology. Eternity. Creation. SCIENCE -- Cosmology. De aeternitate mundi (Proclus) Proclus -- approximately 410-485.
- Series: Ancient commentators on Aristotle
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Edition: 0
- Language: English
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This is a post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical text, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Christianity, AD 529, when the Emporor Justinian closed the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. Philoponus in Alexandria was a brilliant Christian philosopher, steeped in Neoplatanism, 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 1-5 are translated in this volume
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