Proclus: On the Existence of Evils (Paperback, Nippod)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	Carlos Steel • Jan Opsomer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
Edition:	Nippod
ISBN-13:	978-1-4725-5739-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4725-5739-5
Barcode:	9781472557391

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