Until the launch of this series nearly twenty years ago, the 15,000
volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written
mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of
extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or
other European languages. Over 40 volumes have now appeared in the
series, which is planned in some 80 volumes altogether. '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 its text is not very accessible to the modern reader. It
has survived only in a Latin medieval translation. This first
English translation will bring the arguments he formulates again to
the fore.
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