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Proclus: On Providence (Paperback, Nippod)
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Proclus: On Providence (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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'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.
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 place
for free choice and moral responsibility in a world governed by an
unalterable fate? Notwithstanding its great interest, Proclus'
treatise has not received the attention it deserves, probably
because the text survived only in a Latin medieval translation and,
in its original language, is not very accessible to the modern
reader. This volume, the first English translation of the work,
redresses this problem and once again brings the arguments he
formulates to the fore.
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