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Author:   Jonathan Greig
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   156
Weight:   0.725kg
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9789004439054

ISBN 10:   9004439056
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   05 November 2020
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Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1 The Background to Proclus and Damascius 1.1 Plotinus  1.1.1 The 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  2.1.1 The Cause as Greater Than Its Effect  2.1.2 ἐνέργεια, δύναμις, and Causal Synonymy in Proclus  2.1.3 Productive Causes and Two Kinds of Intermediaries 2.2 Unparticipated and Participated Causes  2.2.1 Participated Causes as Relative to Participants: Proclus’ Shift from Plotinus  2.2.2 Relating 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  3.3.1 Self-Constitution and Reversion  3.3.2 Unparticipated/Participated Causality 3.4 Conclusion 4 Proclus on the One’s Causality 4.1 Proclus’ Proofs for the One  4.1.1 ET Prop. 1–4: Unity as an Ontological Component  4.1.2 ET Prop. 5: the One as Unparticipated  4.1.3 ET Prop. 6: the One’s Causality Delegated to the Henads  4.1.4 Putting Proclus’ One in Perspective 4.2 The One within Proclus’ Causal Framework  4.2.1 Proclus’ Causal Model in Response to the Plotinian Model  4.2.2 The One’s Causality Indicated in Negations  4.2.3 The One and Matter 4.3 The Henads as Participated Causes of the One  4.3.1 Distinguishing the Henads  4.3.2 The Henads’ Derivation from the One  4.3.3 Orders of the Henads, and the Limit/Unlimited 4.4 The Limit and Unlimited: a Second Participated Model?  4.4.1 The 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  5.1.1 The First Aporia in DP I,1–2: the One as Coordinated with τὰ πάντα  5.1.2 The One’s Causal Synonymy with τὰ πάντα  5.1.3 Damascius’ Response to Proclus against the One as τὰ πάντα 5.2 Causal Synonymy, and the One-All, All-One, and the Unified  5.2.1 The Undetermined-Determined Distinction in the One (DP I,94–98)  5.2.2 The One Distinguished as Remaining, Procession, Reversion κατὰ ἀναλογίαν  5.2.3 Damascius’ Assessment of the Iamblichean/Proclean Interpretations of the Limit/Unlimited  5.2.4 The One Differentiated into the One-All, All-One, Unified  5.2.5 Summing up Damascius’ Structural Changes 5.3 The Ineffable: Separating Causal Synonymy and the ἀρχή  5.3.1 Distinguishing the Ineffable in Speech  5.3.2 The Three ‘Ascents’ to the First Principle  5.3.3 The Ineffable as the Grounding Principle of the One  5.3.4 The ‘Superfluous Reading’: Objections to Damascius’ Ineffable, and the Ineffable’s Role 5.4 Conclusion: Assessing Damascius’ Transformation Conclusion Bibliography Index Locorum Index Rerum

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""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

"""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"

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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.

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