LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jan opsomer

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jan opsomer

  • Proclus
    Carlos Steel / Jan Opsomer
    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 ...
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  • Proclus
    Carlos Steel / Jan Opsomer
    ’The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the interlocking wheels and the particular beings are like the things moved by the wheels, and all events are determined by an inescapable necessity. To speak of free choice or self determination is only an illusion we human beings cherish.’ Thus writes Theodore the engineer to his old fr...
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    67,02 €

  • Proclus
    Carlos Steel / Jan Opsomer
    ’The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the interlocking wheels and the particular beings are like the things moved by the wheels, and all events are determined by an inescapable necessity. To speak of free choice or self determination is only an illusion we human beings cherish.’ Thus writes Theodore the engineer to his old fri...
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    285,21 €

  • Proclus
    Carlos Steel / Jan Opsomer
    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 ...
    Disponible

    206,93 €