Order from Disorder

Proclus' Doctrine of Evil and Its Roots in Ancient Platonism
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16018-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition

This study places the doctrine of evil of the Neoplatonist Proclus in its proper context, the exegetical tradition as it developed within the various schools of ancient Platonism, from Middle Platonism to early Neoplatonism. With regard to the evil of the body, there are chapters on the various interpretations of Plato's notion of a pre-cosmic disorderly motion as the source of corporeal evil and on the role of what Platonists referred to as an irrational Nature in the origin of that motion. As for evil of the soul, there are chapters dealing with the concept of an evil World Soul and with the view that the evil that is ascribed to the human soul is a form of psychological weakness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

John Phillips, Ph.D. (1980) in Classics, University of Wisconsin, is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His publications on Neoplatonism and the history of Platonism have appeared in Phronesis, Classical Quarterly, and Journal of the History of Philosophy.