Professor of Greek and Latin
rappe@umich.eduOffice Information:
Rm 2131, 435 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
phone: 734.936.6096
Education/Degree:
B.A. '81, M.A. '85, Ph.D. '91, Berkeley
Highlighted Work and Publications
Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles (Aar Religions in Translation)
Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of Neoplatonist metaphysics, discussion of transcendence, and compendium of late antique theologies, make it unique among all extant works of late antique philosophy. It has never before been translated into English.
The Problems and Solutions exhibits a thorough going critique of Proclean metaphysics, starting with the principle...
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