| Title | Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Publication Place | Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian |
| Translator(s) |
| 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, Plotinus, Porphyry, Simplicius, Philoponus and Gregory of Nyssa, tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or from something pre-existing? How was it caused to come into existence? Is it material or immaterial? The second part looks at questions concerning human agency and responsibility, including the problem of evil and the nature of will, considering thinkers such as Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus and Augustine. Highlighting some of the most important and interesting aspects of these philosophical debates, the volume will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of philosophy, classics, theology and ancient history. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/kmaeEwrlY6zOmkp |
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| Title | Neoplatonists on the causes of vegetative life |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity |
| Pages | 171-185 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Wilberding, James |
| Editor(s) | Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian |
| Translator(s) |
| In the Neoplatonism of late antiquity there was an exciting and revolution ary development in the understanding of the aetiology involved in the generation of living things, and here it will be argued that this extended all the way to the Neoplatonic understanding of the causes of vegetative life. In a way, this should come as no surprise. Hippocratics, Aristotle and Galen had all viewed the processes involved in the generation of plants as analogous to those in the generation of embryos.1 In fact, the embryo was commonly held to have the life-status of a plant, with the mother taking on the role of the earth, at least at the earliest stages of its generation.2 As a result, these thinkers saw the same causal models that govern the gener ation of embryos at work in the generation of plants. Indeed, Galen even advises those who wish to investigate the formation of embryos to begin by looking into the generation of plants, The above-mentioned analogy is certainly part of the motivation behind Galen’s counsel, but equally important is that plants are simpler, in terms of both their physiology and their psychology, and thus more perspicuous objects of study. This is what gives us ‘hope to discover among the plants [biological] adminis tration in its pure and unadulterated form’.* What is surprising is the conception of vegetative generation and life that results for Neoplatonists. For, as I shall show here, they ultimately concluded that the vegetative souls of individual plants are not self-sufficient. That is to say, the depend ence of individual plants on the earth, in terms of both their generation and their preservation, extends beyond mere nutritive needs into the psychological domain of their life activities. [pp.. 171 ff.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/fBNwO9EAEaa6zJT |
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| Title | Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy: critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis? |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity |
| Pages | 111-128 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Baltussen, Han |
| Editor(s) | Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian |
| Translator(s) |
| M y aim in this chapter is to examine Sim plicius’ technique o f com pos ition and how it helps structure his evaluative com m ents. Such an investi gation will clarify how his remarkably inclusive selection procedure seeks to draw on w hatever sources he thinks useful for his purpose. [p. 111] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Qu7Nf9sjlkOyAUF |
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| Title | Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Publication Place | Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian |
| Translator(s) |
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, Plotinus, Porphyry, Simplicius, Philoponus and Gregory of Nyssa, tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or from something pre-existing? How was it caused to come into existence? Is it material or immaterial? The second part looks at questions concerning human agency and responsibility, including the problem of evil and the nature of will, considering thinkers such as Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus and Augustine. Highlighting some of the most important and interesting aspects of these philosophical debates, the volume will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of philosophy, classics, theology and ancient history. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/kmaeEwrlY6zOmkp |
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| Title | Neoplatonists on the causes of vegetative life |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity |
| Pages | 171-185 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Wilberding, James |
| Editor(s) | Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian |
| Translator(s) |
In the Neoplatonism of late antiquity there was an exciting and revolution ary development in the understanding of the aetiology involved in the generation of living things, and here it will be argued that this extended all the way to the Neoplatonic understanding of the causes of vegetative life. In a way, this should come as no surprise. Hippocratics, Aristotle and Galen had all viewed the processes involved in the generation of plants as analogous to those in the generation of embryos.1 In fact, the embryo was commonly held to have the life-status of a plant, with the mother taking on the role of the earth, at least at the earliest stages of its generation.2 As a result, these thinkers saw the same causal models that govern the gener ation of embryos at work in the generation of plants. Indeed, Galen even advises those who wish to investigate the formation of embryos to begin by looking into the generation of plants, The above-mentioned analogy is certainly part of the motivation behind Galen’s counsel, but equally important is that plants are simpler, in terms of both their physiology and their psychology, and thus more perspicuous objects of study. This is what gives us ‘hope to discover among the plants [biological] adminis tration in its pure and unadulterated form’.* What is surprising is the conception of vegetative generation and life that results for Neoplatonists. For, as I shall show here, they ultimately concluded that the vegetative souls of individual plants are not self-sufficient. That is to say, the depend ence of individual plants on the earth, in terms of both their generation and their preservation, extends beyond mere nutritive needs into the psychological domain of their life activities. [pp.. 171 ff.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/fBNwO9EAEaa6zJT |
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| Title | Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy: critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis? |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity |
| Pages | 111-128 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Baltussen, Han |
| Editor(s) | Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian |
| Translator(s) |
M y aim in this chapter is to examine Sim plicius’ technique o f com pos ition and how it helps structure his evaluative com m ents. Such an investi gation will clarify how his remarkably inclusive selection procedure seeks to draw on w hatever sources he thinks useful for his purpose. [p. 111] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Qu7Nf9sjlkOyAUF |
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