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The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism: A Study of the One’s Causality in Proclus and Damascius de Jonathan Greig

The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism: A Study of the One’s Causality in Proclus and Damascius: Philosophia Antiqua, cartea 156

Autor Jonathan Greig
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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.
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ISBN-13: 9789004439054
ISBN-10: 9004439056
Pagini: 346
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Philosophia Antiqua

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction

1 The Background to Proclus and Damascius
1.1 Plotinus
1.1.1The One as Anticipating Intellect’s Nature
1.2 Porphyry
1.2.1.The Anonymous Parmenides Commentary
1.2.2.Assessing Porphyry and the Anonymous Commentary in Light of Plotinus
1.3 Iamblichus
1.4 Conclusion: Syrianus’ Transformation as the Foundation for Proclus and Damascius

2 Proclus’ Causal Framework
2.1 The Building Blocks of Causality in Proclus
2.1.1The Cause as Greater Than Its Effect
2.1.2ἐνέργεια, δύναμις, and Causal Synonymy in Proclus
2.1.3Productive Causes and Two Kinds of Intermediaries

2.2 Unparticipated and Participated Causes
2.2.1Participated Causes as Relative to Participants: Proclus’ Shift from Plotinus
2.2.2Relating Unparticipated Causes with Participants
2.3 The Derivation of Participated Entities and Lower Levels from the Unparticipated
2.4 Conclusion

3 Damascius’ Causal Framework
3.1 Synonymy in Causal Relations
3.2 Causal Synonymy and Similar/Dissimilar Effects
3.3 Unparticipated Causality and Self-Constitution
3.3.1Self-Constitution and Reversion
3.3.2Unparticipated/Participated Causality
3.4 Conclusion

4 Proclus on the One’s Causality
4.1 Proclus’ Proofs for the One
4.1.1ET Prop. 1–4: Unity as an Ontological Component
4.1.2ET Prop. 5: the One as Unparticipated
4.1.3ET Prop. 6: the One’s Causality Delegated to the Henads
4.1.4Putting Proclus’ One in Perspective
4.2 The One within Proclus’ Causal Framework
4.2.1Proclus’ Causal Model in Response to the Plotinian Model
4.2.2The One’s Causality Indicated in Negations
4.2.3The One and Matter
4.3 The Henads as Participated Causes of the One
4.3.1Distinguishing the Henads
4.3.2The Henads’ Derivation from the One
4.3.3Orders of the Henads, and the Limit/Unlimited
4.4 The Limit and Unlimited: a Second Participated Model?
4.4.1The One and the Limit/Unlimited in PT III.8–9
4.5 Reconciling Causal Models, and a Remaining Impasse
4.6 Conclusion: Assessing Proclus’ Framework for the One

5 Damascius on the One’s Causality and the Ineffable
5.1 Causal Synonymy and the One
5.1.1The First Aporia in DP I,1–2: the One as Coordinated with τὰ πάντα
5.1.2The One’s Causal Synonymy with τὰ πάντα
5.1.3Damascius’ Response to Proclus against the One as τὰ πάντα
5.2 Causal Synonymy, and the One-All, All-One, and the Unified
5.2.1The Undetermined-Determined Distinction in the One (DP I,94–98)
5.2.2The One Distinguished as Remaining, Procession, Reversion κατὰ ἀναλογίαν
5.2.3Damascius’ Assessment of the Iamblichean/Proclean Interpretations of the Limit/Unlimited
5.2.4The One Differentiated into the One-All, All-One, Unified
5.2.5Summing up Damascius’ Structural Changes
5.3 The Ineffable: Separating Causal Synonymy and the ἀρχή
5.3.1Distinguishing the Ineffable in Speech
5.3.2The Three ‘Ascents’ to the First Principle
5.3.3The Ineffable as the Grounding Principle of the One
5.3.4The ‘Superfluous Reading’: Objections to Damascius’ Ineffable, and the Ineffable’s Role
5.4 Conclusion: Assessing Damascius’ Transformation

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Rerum

Notă biografică

Jonathan Greig, Ph.D. (LMU Munich, 2018), is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Medieval Research). He has published on Neoplatonic metaphysics and its reception in early and late Byzantine philosophy/theology.

Recenzii

"Jonathan Greig liefert die bislang ausführlichste und gründlichste Auseinandersetzung mit dem Problem der produktiven Kausalität des Einen bei Proklos und Damaskios sowie mit seinen geschichtlichen Voraussetzungen und systematischen Rahmenannahmen." Benedikt Krämer, Plekos 24 (2022), 315