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Funding: ERC project, ‘NeoplAT’ (ERC_CoG_771640), begun 2019.
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Names: Greig, Jonathan, author.
Title: The first principle in late Neoplatonism : a study of the one’s causality in Proclus and Damascius / by Jonathan Greig.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Philosophia antiqua : a series of studies on ancient philosophy, 0079-1687 ; volume 156 | Revision of author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universität München, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020030423 | ISBN 9789004439054 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004439092 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Proclus, approximately 410-485. | Damaskios, approximately 480-approximately 550. | Causation. | First philosophy. | One (The One in philosophy) | Neoplatonism.
Classification: LCC BD531 .G74 2021 | DDC 186/.4–dc23
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