Order from Disorder: Proclus' Doctrine of Evil and Its Roots in Ancient Platonism

Order from Disorder: Proclus' Doctrine of Evil and Its Roots in Ancient Platonism (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition #5) John Phillips, 2007 This study places the doctrine of the 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 ..