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Philoponus

Philoponus

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
166
Release Date:
2014-04-10
Publication Date:
2014-04-10
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472557441
ISBN13:
9781472557445
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
263 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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