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Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning Providence (Hardcover)
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Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning Providence (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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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.
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