Order from disorder [[electronic resource] ] : Proclus' doctrine of evil and its roots in ancient platonism / / by John Phillips

• Autore: Phillips John
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 186.4
• Soggetto topico: Good and evil
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-276) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary material / J. Phillips -- Introduction / J. Phillips -- Chapter One. Proclus’ doctrine of evil / J. Phillips -- Chapter Two. Evil as privation / J. Phillips -- Chapter Three. Evil as a disorderly motion / J. Phillips -- Chapter Four. Irrational nature / J. Phillips -- Chapter Five. The evil world soul / J. Phillips -- Chapter Six. Evil as weakness of the human soul / J. Phillips -- Conclusion / J. Phillips -- Bibliography / J. Phillips -- Index / J. Phillips.
• Sommario/riassunto: This study places the doctrine of evil of the Neoplatonist Proclus in its proper context, the exegetical tradition as it developed within the various schools of ancient Platonism, from Middle Platonism to early Neoplatonism. With regard to the evil of the body, there are chapters on the various interpretations of Plato's notion of a pre-cosmic disorderly motion as the source of corporeal evil and on the role of what Platonists referred to as an irrational Nature in the origin of that motion. As for evil of the soul, there are chapters dealing with the concept of an evil World Soul and with the view that the evil that is ascribed to the human soul is a form of psychological weakness.
• Titolo autorizzato: Order from disorder
• ISBN: 1-281-92159-9; 9786611921590; 90-474-2112-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782475603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science ; ; v. 5.