Philoponus: Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World 6-8

by John Philoponus

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472557719
• ISBN13: 9781472557711
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"