Aeneas of Gaza : Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene, Ammonius
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50 years before Philoponus, two Christians from Gaza, seeking to influence Alexandrian Christians, defended the Christian belief in resurrection and the finite duration of the world, and attacked rival Neoplatonist views. Aeneas addresses an unusual version of the food chain argument against resurrection, that our bodies will get eaten by other creatures. Zacharias attacks the Platonist examples of synchronous creation, which were the production of light, of shadow, and of a footprint in the sand. A fragment survives of a third Gazan contribution by Procopius. Zacharias lampoons the Neoplatonist professor in Alexandria, Ammonius, and claims a leading role in the riot which led to the cleverest Neoplatonist, Damascius, fleeing to Athens. It was only Philoponus, however, who was able to embarrass the Neoplatonists by arguing against them on their own terms.
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Характеристики
- ФІО Автора
- Dillon
Donald Andrew
Gertz
John M.
Russell
Sebastian Ramon Philipp - Мова
- Англійська
- Серія
- Ancient commentators on Aristotle
- ISBN
- 9781472500373
- Дата виходу
- 2012
