Proclus: On the Existence of Evils by Steel, Carlos

Proclus: On the Existence of Evils (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472557391)

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Proclus: On the Existence of Evils by Steel, Carlos

Proclus: On the Existence of Evils

$51.95
Proclus: On the Existence of Evils by Steel, Carlos

Proclus: On the Existence of Evils

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Carlos Steel, Jan Opsomer
ISBN-10: 1472557395
ISBN-13: 9781472557391
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d
By Carlos Steel
By Carlos Steel
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Jan Opsomer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, USA.
Carlos Steel is Emeritus Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and Director of 'Aristoteles Latinus'.

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