TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phillips,John
TI  - Order from disorder: Proclus' doctrine of evil and its roots in ancient platonism 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2007
SN  - 9789047421122
AV  - B701.Z7 P55 2007
U1  - 186.4 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Plato
KW  - Proclus,
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Mal
KW  - Platoniciens
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-276) and index; Preliminary material; J. Phillips --; Introduction; J. Phillips --; Chapter One. Proclus’ doctrine of evil; J. Phillips --; Chapter Two. Evil as privation; J. Phillips --; Chapter Three. Evil as a disorderly motion; J. Phillips --; Chapter Four. Irrational nature; J. Phillips --; Chapter Five. The evil world soul; J. Phillips --; Chapter Six. Evil as weakness of the human soul; J. Phillips --; Conclusion; J. Phillips --; Bibliography; J. Phillips --; Index; J. Phillips; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This study places the doctrine of evil of the Neoplatonist Proclus in its proper context, the exegetical tradition as it developed within the various schools of ancient Platonism, from Middle Platonism to early Neoplatonism. With regard to the evil of the body, there are chapters on the various interpretations of Plato's notion of a pre-cosmic disorderly motion as the source of corporeal evil and on the role of what Platonists referred to as an irrational Nature in the origin of that motion. As for evil of the soul, there are chapters dealing with the concept of an evil World Soul and with the view that the evil that is ascribed to the human soul is a form of psychological weakness
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004160187.i-281
ER  -