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• Title:
  Evil Itself and Nothingness in Proclus
• Creator:
  Napoli, Valerio
• Description:
  In his reflection on the nature of evil, the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus affirms that evil itself (to autokakon) is “also beyond the abso­lute non-being” (epekeina kai tou mēdamōs ontos). With this assumption, he intends to reinforce the thesis of the non-existence of absolute evil, conceived as totally separate from good, and contrasted with the collat­eral and parasitic existence of evil mixed with good. He thus maintains a distinction between absolute evil and relative evil, conceived with reference to the distinction between absolute non-being (i.e., nothing­ness) and relative non-being. In Proclus, the thesis of the non-existence of absolute evil is presented as a necessary consequence of the non-dualist theory of evil in the sphere of a protology that identifies the first Principle of all things in the primary Good (identical to the supra-essen­tial One), and which aims to reconcile the absolute primacy of the latter with the presence of evil in some orders of reality.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Valerio Napoli
• Date:
  2020.12.23
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Articles;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Vol. 11 No. 1 (2020); 143-170;
  Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Tom 11 Nr 1 (2020); 143-170;
  2082-7539
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/25901/23642
• Subject:
  Proclus;
  Evil;
  Nothingness;
  Non-being;
  Neoplatonism
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/25901
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text