Causation and creation in late antiquity
Written by a group of leading scholars, this unique collection of essays investigates the views of both pagan and Christian philosophers on causation and the creation of the cosmos. Structured in two parts, the volume first looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers, including the Stoics,...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2015.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b41997682*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Two early Stoic theories of cosmogony / Ricardo Salles
- Plotinus' account of demiurgic causation and its philosophical background / Riccardo Chiaradonna
- Creation and divine providence in Plotinus / Christopher Isaac Noble and Nathan M. Powers
- Waiting for Philoponus / Richard Sorabji
- Gregory of Nyssa on the creation of the world / Anna Marmodoro
- Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy : critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis? / Han Baltussen
- Divine and human freedom : Plotinus' new understanding of creative agency / Kevin Corrigan
- Consciousness and agency in Plotinus / D.M. Hutchinson
- Neoplatonists on the causes of vegetative life / James Wilberding
- Astrology and the will in Porphyry of Tyre / Aaron P. Johnson
- Proclus on the ethics of self-constitution / Michael Griffin
- Deficient causes : Augustine on creation and angels / Gillian Clark
- Willed causes and causal willing in Augustine / Mark Edwards.
