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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
- Chapter 1 Two early Stoic theories of cosmogony
- Chapter 2 Plotinus' account of demiurgic causation and its philosophical background
- Chapter 3 Creation and divine providence in Plotinus
- Chapter 4 Waiting for Philoponus
- Chapter 5 Gregory of Nyssa on the creation of the world
- Chapter 6 Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy: critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis?
- Part II The Origins of Human Agency
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
Chapter 2 - Plotinus' account of demiurgic causation and its philosophical background
from Part I - The Origin of the Cosmos
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
- Chapter 1 Two early Stoic theories of cosmogony
- Chapter 2 Plotinus' account of demiurgic causation and its philosophical background
- Chapter 3 Creation and divine providence in Plotinus
- Chapter 4 Waiting for Philoponus
- Chapter 5 Gregory of Nyssa on the creation of the world
- Chapter 6 Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy: critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis?
- Part II The Origins of Human Agency
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
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- Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity , pp. 31 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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