LEADER 05046nam 22007091c 450 001 9910826429203321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-5214-8 010 $a1-4725-0178-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472552143 035 $a(CKB)2560000000139253 035 $a(EBL)1659721 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001220918 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11715634 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001220918 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11186888 035 $a(PQKB)11218026 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1659721 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1659721 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856255 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL603673 035 $a(OCoLC)878148047 035 $a(OCoLC)922786600 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255051 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000139253 100 $a20140929d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTen problems concerning providence $fProclus ; translated by Jan Opsomer and Carlos Steel 210 1$aLondon $cBristol Classical Press $d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 225 1 $aAncient commentators on Aristotle 300 $a"Paperback edition first published 2014"--T. p. verso. 311 $a1-4725-5794-8 311 $a0-7156-3924-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes 327 $aConventions -- Preface -- Introduction -- Translation -- Notes -- Philological Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects 330 $a"In this treatise Proclus discusses ten problems on providence and fate, foreknowledge of the future, human responsibility, evil and punishment (or seemingly absence of punishment), social and individual responsibility for evil, and the unequal fate of different animals. These problems, he admits, had been discussed a thousand times in and outside philosophical schools. Yet, as he put it, we too have to discuss them, not because we imagine that the philosophers before us have said anything valuable, but because our soul desires 'to speak and hear about these problems and wants to turn to itself and to discuss as it were with itself and is not willing to take arguments about these issues only from authorities outside'. Proclus exhorts his readers: we are to use his treatise as an opportunity to investigate these problems for ourselves 'in the secret recess of our soul' and 'exercise ourselves in the solutions of problems'. In fact, it makes no difference whether what we discuss has been said before by philosophers, so long as we express what corresponds to our own views. This exhortation may be the best presentation of the translation of this wonderful treatise from late antiquity."--Bloomsbury Publishing 330 8 $a'The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the interlocking wheels and the particular beings are like the things moved by the wheels, and all events are determined by an inescapable necessity. To speak of free choice or self determination is only an illusion we human beings cherish.' Thus writes Theodore the engineer to his old friend Proclus, one of the last major Classical philosophers. Proclus' reply is one of the most remarkable discussions on fate, providence and free choice in Late Antiquity. It continues a long debate that had started with the first polemics of the Platonists against the Stoic doctrine of determinism. How can there be a place for free choice and moral responsibility in a world governed by an unalterable fate? Proclus discusses ten problems on providence and fate, foreknowledge of the future, human responsibility, evil and punishment (or seemingly absence of punishment), social and individual responsibility for evil, and the unequal fate of different animals. Until now, despite its great interest, Proclus' treatise has not received the attention it deserves, probably because its text is not very accessible to the modern reader. It has survived only in a Latin medieval translation and in some extensive Byzantine Greek extracts. This first English translation, based on a retro-conversion that works out what the original Greek must have been, brings the arguments he formulates again to the fore. 410 0$aAncient commentators on Aristotle. 606 $aProvidence and government of God$vEarly works to 1800 606 $2Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 606 $aFate and fatalism$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aFree will and determinism$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aProvidence and government of God 615 0$aFate and fatalism 615 0$aFree will and determinism 676 $a123 676 $a123 700 $aProclus$fapproximately 410-485,$0293179 702 $aOpsomer$b Jan 702 $aSteel$b Carlos G. 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826429203321 996 $aTen problems concerning providence$94067395 997 $aUNINA