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Damascius' Problems and solutions concerning first principles /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Damaskios, approximately 480-approximately 550
Otros Autores: Ahbel-Rappe, Sara, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Colección:AAR religion in translation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Prolegomenon
  • Note on the Translation
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction to the Life and Philosophy of Damascius
  • TRANSLATION OF DAMASCIUSâ€? PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS CONCERNING FIRST PRINCIPLES
  • PART ONE. ON THE INEFFABLE
  • SECTION I. ON THE INEFFABLE
  • Chapter 1. On the Ineffable and Its Relationship to All Things
  • Chapter 2. The Transcendence of the Ineffable
  • Chapter 3. Our Affinity with the Ineffable
  • Chapter 4. Speculation Concerning the Ineffable
  • Chapter 5. On Plato and the Language of Metaphysics
  • Chapter 6. That the One Is UnknowableChapter 7. On the Complete Overturning of All Discourse Concerning the Ineffable
  • Chapter 8. Three Questions Concerning the Ineffable qua Its Status as First Principle
  • SECTION II. ASCENT TO THE FIRST PRINCIPLE
  • Chapter 9. First Method: Self-Sufficiency as the Criterion
  • Chapter 10. Nature as a First Principle
  • Chapter 11. The Irrational Soul
  • Chapter 12. The Rational Soul and Intellect
  • Chapter 13. The One Is Not the First Principle
  • Chapter 14. Second Method of Ascent: From the Potential to the Actual
  • Chapter 15. Digression: Does Irrational Soul Move Itself?Chapter 16. Irrational Soul and the Living Being
  • Chapter 17. Self-Motion Defined
  • Chapter 18. The Degrees and Kinds of Self-Motion
  • Chapter 19. The Self-Mover is not the First Principle
  • Chapter 20. Intellect is Not the First Principle
  • Chapter 21. Being Is Not the First Principle
  • Chapter 22. The One as the First Principle
  • Chapter 23. Third Method of Ascent: The World as First Principle
  • Chapter 24. The Unmanifest Diacosm Is Not the First Principle
  • PART TWO. ON THE ONE
  • SECTION III. ON THE ONE AND ON KNOWLEDGE OF THE ONEChapter 25. Is There a Principle That Mediates between the One and the Ineffable?
  • Chapter 26. The One Cannot Be Known
  • Chapter 27. Cognitive Reversion Does Not Bring about Knowledge of the One
  • Chapter 28. Excursus on Multiplicity
  • Chapter 29. Unitary Knowledge
  • SECTION IV. ON THE ONE AND ALL THINGS
  • Chapter 30. Three Questions and Answer to the Third Question
  • Chapter 31. Answer to the Second Question, Is the One All Things Equally?
  • Chapter 32. Answer to the First Question, How Is the One All Things?
  • Chapter 33. The One-All Is Both All-Inclusive and DeterminateSECTION V. ON PROCESSION FROM THE ONE
  • Chapter 34. On the First Differentiation
  • Chapter 35. On the Origin of Distinction
  • Chapter 36. The One Is Neither In All Things Nor Is It Before All Things
  • SECTION VI. THE CAUSALITY OF THE ONE
  • Chapter 37. Questions about the Cause of Differentiation
  • Chapter 38. Chaldean and Iamblichean Language Concerning the Cause of Differentiation from the One
  • Chapter 39. Doctrine of the Chaldeans Applied to the Oneâ€?s Procession