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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Proclus of Constantinople was an outstanding pulpit orator who established the rhetoric and rationale for the Byzantine devotion to the Mother of God. In this book, the critical editions of Proclus' most celebrated Marian sermons (Homilies 1-5) provide the point of departure for a far-reaching study of the rise of the Virgin's cult in Late Antiquity. The homilies are supported by a historical introduction to the life and work of Proclus, situating him within the larger religious culture of fifth-century Constantinople. Richly documented chapters explore the symbolism of the incarnation and virgin birth, including the notion of virginal "conception through hearing," and the image of Mary's womb as a textile loom wich weaves a veil of flesh the bodiless divinity. ... Read more

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The Alcuin Club promotes the study of Christian Liturgy especially the liturgy of the Anglican Communion. This study presents the English translation of Proclus' "Mystagogical Homily". ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Proclus (c. 410 - 485) was one of the major Greek philosophersof lateAntiquity. In his metaphysics he developed and systematizedfundamentalproblems of Plato's thought, such as participation;transcendence - immanence;causation - participation - return; henadsand monads. In a theological way heinterpreted some of Plato'sdialogues. In the tradition of the neo-platonicschool of Athens hetried to bring together Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato.Before andafter his works had been translated into Latin, Proclus influencedtheChristian West through the Liber de causis ("Book of Causes"), aLatintranslation of an anonymous Arab version of his Elementatio theologica. Among those who commented on the Liber or on some of its theses, were many well-known philosophers: Albert the Great, ThomasAquinas,Master Eckhart, Berthold of Moosberg and William of Ockham.The Liber decausis stimulated discussions about the concepts of God,first and secondcausality, universals, metaphysics of being asopposed to metaphysics of theone.In the volume various specialistsdiscuss these problems: Saffrey, De Rijk,Meyer, Steel, De Libera,Aertsen, Beierwaltes and Bos. ... Read more

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A fascinating document about an evolving platonism
No one will try to prove that all the elements of Marinus's Life of Proclus are facts, but this isn't how we should approach this work anyway, much like Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Its value is twofold: on one hand, it's a fascinating narrative depicting a deeply ascetic, pious and philosophical life at a time when pagan philosophers had to fight to keep their schools and traditions alive; on the other, it's an highly informative document about the period. It covers a wide variety of topics as to how platonism evolved in late Antiquity, including a classification of virtues that differs slightly from Plotinus's (physical, moral, political, purificatory, theoretic and theurgic), theology as the culminating science (and Plato as a theologian), the study of Aristotle's work as a preparation for the study of Plato's, the extreme importance of Orphism and the Chaldean oracles and the relations between neoplatonic philosophers and Christians. This edition also includes five hymns written by Proclus and a bibliography of his works (including those that are lost). This book is essential for those interested in the history of platonism. ... Read more