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Proclus

By Carlos Steel

Proclus

By Carlos Steel

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Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries. The central question addressed in the work is: how can there be evil in a providential world? Neoplatonists agree that it cannot be caused by higher and worthier beings. Plotinus had said that evil is matter, which, unlike Aristotle, he collapsed into mere privation or lack, thus reducing its reality. He also protected higher causes from responsibility by saying that evil may result from a combination of goods. Proclus objects: evil is real, and not a privation. Rather, it is a parasite feeding off good. Parasites have no proper cause, and higher beings are thus vindicated as being the causes only of the good off which evil feeds.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
170
Release Date:
2003-04-24
Publication Date:
2003-04-24
Publisher:
Bristol Classical Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0715631985
ISBN13:
9780715631980
Weight:
426 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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