Philoponus Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World 1-5

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Synopsis

This is a post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical text, 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 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.

Book details

Series:
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Author:
Philoponus, Michael Share
ISBN:
9781472501219
Related ISBNs:
9781472557445
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
192
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-10-21
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2014
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Philosophy