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The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism A Study of the One's Causality in Proclus and Damascius.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greig, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Colección:Philosophia Antiqua Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 The Backdrop of Causality in a Platonist/Aristotelian Context
  • 1.2 Why Proclus and Damascius?
  • 1.3 Reception in Byzantine, Arabic, and Latin Contexts
  • 1.4 The Focus of This Study
  • Chapter 1 The Background to Proclus and Damascius
  • 1.1 Plotinus
  • 1.1.1 The One as Anticipating Intellect's Nature
  • 1.2 Porphyry
  • 1.2.1 The Anonymous Parmenides Commentary
  • 1.2.2 Assessing Porphyry and the Anonymous Commentary in Light of Plotinus
  • 2.3 The Derivation of Participated Entities and Lower Levels from the Unparticipated
  • 2.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Damascius' Causal Framework
  • 3.1 Synonymy in Causal Relations
  • 3.2 Causal Synonymy and Similar/Dissimilar Effects
  • 3.3 Unparticipated Causality and Self-Constitution
  • 3.3.1 Self-Constitution and Reversion
  • 3.3.2 Unparticipated/Participated Causality
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Proclus on the One's Causality
  • 4.1 Proclus' Proofs for the One
  • 4.1.1 et Prop. 1-4: Unity as an Ontological Component
  • 4.1.2 et Prop. 5: the One as Unparticipated
  • 4.1.3 et Prop. 6: the One's Causality Delegated to the Henads
  • 4.1.4 Putting Proclus' One in Perspective
  • 4.2 The One within Proclus' Causal Framework
  • 4.2.1 Proclus' Causal Model in Response to the Plotinian Model
  • 4.2.2 The One's Causality Indicated in Negations
  • 4.2.3 The One and Matter
  • 4.3 The Henads as Participated Causes of the One
  • 4.3.1 Distinguishing the Henads
  • 4.3.2 The Henads' Derivation from the One
  • 4.3.3 Orders of the Henads, and the Limit/Unlimited
  • 4.4 The Limit and Unlimited: a Second Participated Model?
  • 4.4.1 The One and the Limit/Unlimited in PT iii.8-9