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Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning Providence (Paperback, Nippod)
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Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning 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, 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.
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