TY - BOOK AU - Damascius Damascenus, AU - Ahbel-Rappe,Sara TI - Damascius' Problems and solutions concerning first principles T2 - Religion in translation series SN - 9780199722310 AV - B557.D23 A6613 2009eb U1 - 186/.4 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - First philosophy KW - Metaphysics KW - Métaphysique KW - metaphysics KW - aat KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - History & Surveys KW - Ancient & Classical KW - bisacsh KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Contents -- Prolegomenon -- Note on the Translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to the Life and Philosophy of Damascius -- TRANSLATION OF DAMASCIUSâ€? PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS CONCERNING FIRST PRINCIPLES -- PART ONE. ON THE INEFFABLE -- SECTION I. ON THE INEFFABLE -- Chapter 1. On the Ineffable and Its Relationship to All Things -- Chapter 2. The Transcendence of the Ineffable -- Chapter 3. Our Affinity with the Ineffable -- Chapter 4. Speculation Concerning the Ineffable -- Chapter 5. On Plato and the Language of Metaphysics; Chapter 6. That the One Is UnknowableChapter 7. On the Complete Overturning of All Discourse Concerning the Ineffable -- Chapter 8. Three Questions Concerning the Ineffable qua Its Status as First Principle -- SECTION II. ASCENT TO THE FIRST PRINCIPLE -- Chapter 9. First Method: Self-Sufficiency as the Criterion -- Chapter 10. Nature as a First Principle -- Chapter 11. The Irrational Soul -- Chapter 12. The Rational Soul and Intellect -- Chapter 13. The One Is Not the First Principle -- Chapter 14. Second Method of Ascent: From the Potential to the Actual; Chapter 15. Digression: Does Irrational Soul Move Itself?Chapter 16. Irrational Soul and the Living Being -- Chapter 17. Self-Motion Defined -- Chapter 18. The Degrees and Kinds of Self-Motion -- Chapter 19. The Self-Mover is not the First Principle -- Chapter 20. Intellect is Not the First Principle -- Chapter 21. Being Is Not the First Principle -- Chapter 22. The One as the First Principle -- Chapter 23. Third Method of Ascent: The World as First Principle -- Chapter 24. The Unmanifest Diacosm Is Not the First Principle -- PART TWO. ON THE ONE; SECTION III. ON THE ONE AND ON KNOWLEDGE OF THE ONEChapter 25. Is There a Principle That Mediates between the One and the Ineffable? -- Chapter 26. The One Cannot Be Known -- Chapter 27. Cognitive Reversion Does Not Bring about Knowledge of the One -- Chapter 28. Excursus on Multiplicity -- Chapter 29. Unitary Knowledge -- SECTION IV. ON THE ONE AND ALL THINGS -- Chapter 30. Three Questions and Answer to the Third Question -- Chapter 31. Answer to the Second Question, Is the One All Things Equally? -- Chapter 32. Answer to the First Question, How Is the One All Things?; Chapter 33. The One-All Is Both All-Inclusive and DeterminateSECTION V. ON PROCESSION FROM THE ONE -- Chapter 34. On the First Differentiation -- Chapter 35. On the Origin of Distinction -- Chapter 36. The One Is Neither In All Things Nor Is It Before All Things -- SECTION VI. THE CAUSALITY OF THE ONE -- Chapter 37. Questions about the Cause of Differentiation -- Chapter 38. Chaldean and Iamblichean Language Concerning the Cause of Differentiation from the One -- Chapter 39. Doctrine of the Chaldeans Applied to the Oneâ€?s Procession UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=338826 ER -