This is a post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical text, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Christianity, AD 529, when the Emporor Justinian closed the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. Philoponus in Alexandria was a brilliant Christian philosopher, steeped in Neoplatanism, who turned the pagans' ideas against them. Here he attacks the most devout of the earlier Athenian pagan philosophers, Proclus, defending the distinctively Christian view that the universe had a beginning against Proclus' eighteen arguments to the contrary, which are discussed in eighteen chapters. Chapters 1-5 are translated in this volume.
- ISBN10 0801442141
- ISBN13 9780801442148
- Publish Date 17 March 2005 (first published 28 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English