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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cornell Univ Pr
Publication date
May 1, 2003
Pages
159
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780801441004
ISBN-10
0801441005
Dimensions
0.50 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
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$97.95
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university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.
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from Cornell Univ Pr (May 1, 2003)
9780801441004 | details & prices | 159 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $97.95
About: Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries.
About: Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries.
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