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Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity by Anna Marmodoro, Brian D. Prince (eds.) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity about?
Written by a group of leading scholars, this unique collection of essays investigates the views of both pagan and Christian philosophers on causation and the creation of the cosmos. Structured in two parts, the volume first looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers, including the Stoics, Plotinus, Porphyry, Simplicius, Philoponus and Gregory of Nyssa, tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or from something pre-existing? How was it caused to come in
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anna Marmodoro, Brian D. Prince (eds.)
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781107447974
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Social Science, History, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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