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The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism : A Study of the One's Causality in Proclus and Damascius
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 -...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Boston
: BRILL
, 2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Philosophia Antiqua Ser
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6384976 |
| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 -- 1.3 Iamblichus -- 1.4 Conclusion: Syrianus' Transformation as the Foundation for Proclus and Damascius -- Chapter 2 Proclus' Causal Framework -- 2.1 The Building Blocks of Causality in Proclus -- 2.1.1 The Cause as Greater Than Its Effect -- 2.1.2 ἐνέργεια, δύναμις, and Causal Synonymy in Proclus -- 2.1.3 Productive Causes and Two Kinds of Intermediaries -- 2.2 Unparticipated and Participated Causes -- 2.2.1 Participated Causes as Relative to Participants: Proclus' Shift from Plotinus -- 2.2.2 Relating Unparticipated Causes with Participants -- 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 -- 4.5 Reconciling Causal Models, and a Remaining Impasse -- 4.6 Conclusion: Assessing Proclus' Framework for the One -- Chapter 5 Damascius on the One's Causality and the Ineffable -- 5.1 Causal Synonymy and the One -- 5.1.1 The First Aporia in DP i,1-2: the One as Coordinated with τὰ πάντα -- 5.1.2 The One's Causal Synonymy with τὰ πάντα -- 5.1.3 Damascius' Response to Proclus against the One as τὰ πάντα -- 5.2 Causal Synonymy, and the One-All, All-One, and the Unified -- 5.2.1 The Undetermined-Determined Distinction in the One (dp i,94-98) -- 5.2.2 Τhe One Distinguished as Remaining, Procession, Reversion κατὰ ἀναλογίαν -- 5.2.3 Damascius' Assessment of the Iamblichean/Proclean Interpretations of the Limit/Unlimited -- 5.2.4 The One Differentiated into the One-All, All-One, Unified -- 5.2.5 Summing Up Damascius' Structural Changes -- 5.3 The Ineffable: Separating Causal Synonymy and the ἀρχή -- 5.3.1 Distinguishing the Ineffable in Speech -- 5.3.2 The Three 'Ascents' to the First Principle -- 5.3.3 The Ineffable as the Grounding Principle of the One -- 5.3.4 The 'Superfluous Reading': Objections to Damascius' Ineffable, and the Ineffable's Role -- 5.4 Conclusion: Assessing Damascius' Transformation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 1 Primary Sources (Editions and Translations Cited) -- 2 Secondary Literature -- Index Locorum -- Index Rerum. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (360 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004439092 |
