• ISBN13: 9781472557711
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication Date: April 10, 2014
• Pages: 192
• Original Price: GBP 37.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 299 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Criticism, and Space Science / Cosmology

This is one of the most interesting of all post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical texts, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Christianity, AD 529, when the Emperor Justinian closed the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. Philoponus in Alexandria was a brilliant Christian philosopher, steeped in Neoplatonism, who turned the pagans' ideas against them. Here he attacks the most devout of the earlier Athenian pagan philosophers, Proclus, defending the distinctively Christian view that the universe had a beginning against Proclus' eighteen arguments to the contrary, which are discussed in eighteen chapters. Chapters 6-8 are translated in this volume.

Share, Michael: - Michael Share is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Australia.