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On the Eternity of the World de Aeternitate Mundi
Helen S. Proclus; Lang
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hardcover. In the fifth century AD, Proclus served as head of the Academy in Athens that had been founded 900 years earlier by Plato. This bilingual edition comprises Proclus's 17 arguments (II-XVIII) on the eternity of the world and for the existence of God. Num Pages: 201 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
In the fifth century A.D., 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 ... Read more
In the fifth century A.D., 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520225541
SKU
V9780520225541
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About Helen S. Proclus; Lang
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.
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