{"product_id":"proclus-on-the-existence-of-evils-9781472557391","title":"Proclus: On the Existence of Evils","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carlos Steel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Free Will \u0026amp; Determinism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProclus' \u003ci\u003eOn the Existence of Evils\u003c\/i\u003e 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 into mere privation or lack, thus reducing its reality. He also protected higher causes from responsibility by saying that evil may result from a combination of goods. Proclus objects: evil is real, and not a privation. Rather, it is a parasite feeding off good. Parasites have no proper cause, and higher beings are thus vindicated as being the causes only of the good off which evil feeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085878878359,"sku":"9781472557391","price":4959.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781472557391.webp?v=1767142879","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/proclus-on-the-existence-of-evils-9781472557391","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}