On the Eternity of the World de Aeternitate Mundi

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Proclus

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In the 5th century AD, Proclus served as head of the Academy in Athens that had been founded 900 years earlier by Plato. Proclus was the last great systematizer of Greek philosophy, and his work exerted a powerful influence in late antiquity, in the Arab world and in the Renaissance. His treatise "On the Eternity of the World" formed the basis for virtually all later arguments for the eternity of the world and for the existence of God; consequently, it lies at the heart of neoplatonic philosophy and the controversy between pagans and Christians at the end of antiquity. Proclus's 18 Arguments were quoted within John Philoponus' polemic against him, written in the 6th century; but the opening pages of the sole extant manuscript, which contained the first Argument, have been lost. In this book, Helen Lang and A.D. Macro present the 17 Arguments preserved by Philoponus and translate them as an independent work. The first Argument, which survives in Arabic, is also included and makes this the only complete edition of "On the Eternity of the World" since antiquity. This bilingual edition comprises the 17 Arguments (II-XVIII) in Greek and English, along with an introduction, synopses and

Author Biography:

Helen S. Lang is Koeppel Professor of Classical Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College and author of Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties (1992) and The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and The Elements (1998). A. D. Macro is Hobart Professor of Classical Languages in the Department of Classics at Trinity College.

Release date NZ

January 2nd, 2002

Author

Proclus

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Commentaries by A.D. Macro
Commentaries by Helen S. Lang
Introduction by A.D. Macro
Introduction by Helen S. Lang
Translated by A.D. Macro
Translated by Helen S. Lang

Pages

201

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780520225541

Product ID

6927176

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