The Mind-Matter Dichotomy: A Persistent Challenge for Neuroscientific and Philosophical Theories. [PDF]
Eur J NeurosciABSTRACT Several areas of cognitive neuroscience tackle traditional philosophical questions. Among the range of problems, two closely related issues will be addressed in more detail from both neurobiological and philosophical perspectives: the relationship between mind and matter and the nature of perception.
Singer W.
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Adam et Ève faisaient-ils l’amour au paradis ? Notule sur Les aveux de la chair de Michel Foucault
Astérion, 2021 In the last part of Confessions of the Flesh, Michel Foucault offers a careful analysis of the libido theory as “the stigma of the involuntary in after-fault sex” according to Saint Augustine.
Ákos Cseke
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Contemporary Ecology and Augustine on Creation
Estudios Eclesiásticos, 2019 Augustine of Hippo, despite his reputation as one of the most important figures in Western theology, is not a popular figure in current theological discussions on ecological issues. This article seeks to know why. It investigates on how some contemporary
Mark Rochelle Ferraren Renacia
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Augustine’s critique of representation in arts: Confessions
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2019 This article is concerned with the critique of representation in art found in Augustine’s Confessions. The aim of the author is not only to reveal the fundamental influence of Plato and Aristotle on Augustine’s criticism, but to show the unique aspects ...
Mantas Tamošaitis
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The Premises of Historical Narrative in Augustine’s De civitate Dei
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2021 The article examines the problems of history and historical narrative in St. Augustine’s De civitate Dei. The author seeks to reveal the problematic nature of Augustine’s conception of history in the opposition of cyclical and linear conceptions of time.
Mantas Tamošaitis
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Augustine’s Paradigm ’ab exterioribus ad interiora, ab inferioribus ad superiora’ in the Western and Eastern Christian Mysticism [PDF]
, 2015 I argue that St. Augustine of Hippo was the first in the history of Christian spirituality who expressed a key tendency of Christian mysticism, which implies a gradual intellectual ascent of the human soul to God, consisting of the three main stages ...
Alexey, Fokin
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Ojcostwo Boże i ojcostwo ludzkie w ujęciu św. Augustyna
Vox Patrum, 2015 The presented article consists of two main parts. The first one describes the characteristic elements of God’s fatherhood as it is seen by St. Augustine.
Antoni Swoboda
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J. Ebbeler, Discipling Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters. [PDF]
, 2013 Review of Ebbeler, Disciplining ...
Robin Whelan
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“None Come Closer to Us than These:” Augustine and the Platonists
Religions, 2016 This paper reflects on the importance of pagan Platonism to one of its most sympathetic Christian interpreters, Augustine of Hippo. Its goal is to uncover what Platonism meant to Augustine and why it mattered so much to him throughout his long career. To
John Peter Kenney
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The notion of language deviations in St. Augustine’s Ars pro fratrum mediocritate breuiata
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2019 The notion of linguistic correction (Latinitas) with which Augustine of Hippo introduced his Ars pro fratrum mediocritate breuiata seems central to the philosopher's grammatical discussion, not only because of the various examples that Augustine offers ...
Fábio Fortes +1 more
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