Against Proclus On the eternity of the world 1-5
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Against Proclus On the eternity of the world 1-5
（Ancient commentators on Aristotle）
Bloomsbury, 2014, c2004
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Philoponus : Against Proclus On the eternity of the world 1-5
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"First published in 2004 by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., Paperback edition first published 2014"--T.p. verso
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This is a post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical text, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Christianity, AD 529, when the Emperor Justinian closed the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. Philoponus in Alexandria was a brilliant Christian philosopher, steeped in Neoplatanism, who turned the pagans' ideas against them. Here he attacks the most devout of the earlier Athenian pagan philosophers, Proclus, defending the distinctively Christian view that the universe had a beginning against Proclus' eighteen arguments to the contrary, which are discussed in eighteen chapters. Chapters 1-5 are translated in this volume.
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Preface
Introduction
Textual Emendations
TRANSLATION
Notes
Bibliography English-Greek
Glossary Greek-English Index
Index of Passages Cited
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