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- Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
- Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Origin of the Cosmos
- Part II The Origins of Human Agency
- Chapter 7 Divine and human freedom: Plotinus' new understanding of creative agency
- Chapter 8 Consciousness and agency in Plotinus
- Chapter 9 Neoplatonists on the causes of vegetative life
- Chapter 10 Astrology and the will in Porphyry of Tyre
- Chapter 11 Proclus on the ethics of self-constitution
- Chapter 12 Deficient causes: Augustine on creation and angels
- Chapter 13 Willed causes and causal willing in Augustine
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
Chapter 9 - Neoplatonists on the causes of vegetative life
from Part II - The Origins of Human Agency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2015
- Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
- Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Origin of the Cosmos
- Part II The Origins of Human Agency
- Chapter 7 Divine and human freedom: Plotinus' new understanding of creative agency
- Chapter 8 Consciousness and agency in Plotinus
- Chapter 9 Neoplatonists on the causes of vegetative life
- Chapter 10 Astrology and the will in Porphyry of Tyre
- Chapter 11 Proclus on the ethics of self-constitution
- Chapter 12 Deficient causes: Augustine on creation and angels
- Chapter 13 Willed causes and causal willing in Augustine
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
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- Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity , pp. 171 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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