On the Eternity of the World: De Aeternitate Mundi Hardcover - 2001
by PROCLUS
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- Title On the Eternity of the World: De Aeternitate Mundi
- Author PROCLUS
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 201
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2001
- Features Annotated, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 49848
- ISBN 9780520225541 / 0520225546
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.33 x 6.28 x 0.78 in (23.70 x 15.95 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Library of Congress subjects Cosmology, Eternity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00067668
- Dewey Decimal Code 113
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"This work makes available for the first time in English the treatise of Proclus on the Eternity of the World (which he presents in the form of a series of distinct arguments), and provides excellent annotations showing the provenance of these arguments, and their connection with other passages in Proclus, as well as an introduction providing the background to the controversy, which is a basic issue in dispute between Hellenic philosophy and Christianity."--John Dillon, Trinity College Dublin
"In this superb annotated translation, Helen Lang and A.D. Macro achieve clarity of meaning along with meticulous fidelity to Proclus's prose. Proclus's arguments for eternity of the cosmos influenced Islamic civilization, the medieval Latin West, and the Italian Renaissance. And Phiopontus's refutation of Proclus in his De Aeternitate Mundi contra Proclum became a model for the later Christian rejection of Greek thought. This is a rich harvest of late antique thought vital for understanding the hisory of philosophy and theology in the West."--Joel L. Kraemer, John Henry Barrows Professor, The Divinity School, University of Chicago
