Proclus: On the Existence of Evils

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Proclus: On the Existence of Evils

Proclus: On the Existence of Evils

Name: Proclus: On the Existence of Evils
ISBN: 9780801441004

Jan Opsomer, Carlos Steel

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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.

Kategorije:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology

Godina:

2003

Izdavač:

Cornell University Press

Jezik:

english

Strane:

160

ISBN 10:

0801441005