TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greig,Jonathan
TI  - The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism: A Study of the One's Causality in Proclus and Damascius 
T2  - Philosophia Antiqua
SN  - 9789004439092
AV  - BD531 
U1  - 186/.4 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL, 
KW  - Damaskios,
KW  - Proclus,
KW  - Causation
KW  - First philosophy
KW  - Neoplatonism
KW  - One (The One in philosophy)
N1  - Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität München, 2017; Includes bibliographical references and index; The background to Proclus and Damascius -- Proclus' causal framework -- Damascius' causal framework causal framework -- Proclus on the ones causality -- Damascius on the one's causality and the ineffable
N2  - In The First Principle , Jonathan Greig examines the philosophical theology of the two Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius (5th-6th centuries A.D.), on the One as the first cause. Both philosophers address a tension in the Neoplatonic tradition: namely that the One was seen as absolutely transcendent, yet it was also seen as intimately related to other things as the source of their unity and being. Proclus' solution is to posit intermediate causes after the One, while Damascius posits a distinct principle, the 'Ineffable', above the One. This book provides a new, thorough study of the theories of causation that lead each to their respective position and reveals crucial insights involved in a rigorous negative theology employed in metaphysics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004439092
ER  -