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- catalog abstract ""In the fifth century A.D., Proclus served as head of the Academy in Athens, which had been founded 900 years earlier by Plato. Proclus was the last great systematizer of Greek philosophy, and his work exerted a powerful influence in late antiquity, in the Arab world, and in the Renaissance. His treatise On the Eternity of the World formed the basis for virtually all later arguments for the eternity of the world and for the existence of God; consequently, it lies at the heart of neoplatonic philosophy and the controversy between pagans and Christians at the end of antiquity. No known copy survives." "Proclus's eighteen Arguments were quoted, however, within John Philoponus's polemic against him, written in the sixth century; but the opening pages of the sole extant manuscript, which contained the first Argument, have been lost. In this book, Helen Lang and A.D. Macro present the seventeen Arguments preserved by Philoponus and translate them as an independent work. The first Argument, which survives in Arabic, is also included and makes this the only complete edition of On the Eternity of the World since antiquity." "This edition comprises the seventeen Arguments (II-XVIII) in Greek and English, along with an introduction, synopses, and detailed notes to help readers with or without Greek understand them philosophically and historically. Two appendices complete the volume: the Arabic text of the first Argument, also with English translation and notes, and the first modern edition of an important Latin translation from the Renaissance."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "De aeternitate mundi".
- catalog alternative "De aeternitate mundi. English & Greek".
- catalog contributor b12336334.
- catalog contributor b12336335.
- catalog contributor b12336336.
- catalog contributor b12336337.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In the fifth century A.D., Proclus served as head of the Academy in Athens, which had been founded 900 years earlier by Plato. Proclus was the last great systematizer of Greek philosophy, and his work exerted a powerful influence in late antiquity, in the Arab world, and in the Renaissance. His treatise On the Eternity of the World formed the basis for virtually all later arguments for the eternity of the world and for the existence of God; consequently, it lies at the heart of neoplatonic philosophy and the controversy between pagans and Christians at the end of antiquity. No known copy survives." "Proclus's eighteen Arguments were quoted, however, within John Philoponus's polemic against him, written in the sixth century; but the opening pages of the sole extant manuscript, which contained the first Argument, have been lost. In this book, Helen Lang and A.D. Macro present the seventeen Arguments preserved by Philoponus and translate them as an independent work. The first Argument, which survives in Arabic, is also included and makes this the only complete edition of On the Eternity of the World since antiquity." "This edition comprises the seventeen Arguments (II-XVIII) in Greek and English, along with an introduction, synopses, and detailed notes to help readers with or without Greek understand them philosophically and historically. Two appendices complete the volume: the Arabic text of the first Argument, also with English translation and notes, and the first modern edition of an important Latin translation from the Renaissance."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xii, 189 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0520225546 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "Includes Procli successoris rationes ii-xviii in Latin.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "enggrcaralat grcara".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "113 21".
- catalog subject "B701.D38 E513 2001".
- catalog subject "Cosmology Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Eternity Early works to 1800.".
- catalog title "De aeternitate mundi".
- catalog title "De aeternitate mundi. English & Greek".
- catalog title "On the eternity of the world = (De aeternitate mundi) / Proclus ; Greek text with introduction, translation, and commentary by Helen S. Lang and A.D. Macro ; argument I translated from the Arabic by Jon McGinnis.".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".