On the existence of evils
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Author
Contributions
- Opsomer, Jan. - Contributor
- Steel, Carlos G. - Contributor
Publication
2003 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
39,750 words, Guess
Page Count
159 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3683771M
- ISBN-100801441005
- OCLC Control Number51922443
- OCLC Control Numberonexistenceevils00proc
- Library of Congress Control Number2003043882
and 2 more
- LibraryThing4745666
- Goodreads1648836
Classifications
- DDC111/.84
- LCCB701.D4172 E5 2003
Description
"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 the mere privation of form. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Topics
Genres
- Early works to 1800.
Series Statement
- [The Ancient commentators on Aristotle]
Other Editions
- On the existence of evils
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