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Beyond the Polemics: Freedom and Necessity in Plotinus and St Maximus Confessor

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 49-63, January 2024.
Abstract Abstract: The aim of this paper is to challenge the prevailing polemic between ‘necessary’ emanation and ‘free’ creation. I begin by arguing for the presence of freedom and volition in the emanationism of Plotinus. I then move on to explore the role of necessity in the creationism of Maximus. In both cases, I rely upon a twofold schematisation
Daniel Heide
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Bouc et mystères : Pan, télétarque dionysiaque

Mythos
The goat traditionally sacrificed to Dionysus could evoke Pan's presence in the Dionysian thiase, where he mingles with a theriomorphic crowd without diluting his singularity.
Émilie Borron
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The Word is not Enough: Symbol, Myth, and Ritual in Hofmannsthal’s Libretto for Arabella

Muzikološki Zbornik, 2015
Michael Steinberg claims that the Strauss-Hofmannsthal operas are successful because Hofmannsthal’s fixed, or ‘Apollonian’ libretto is counteracted by Strauss’s dynamic, or ‘Dionysian’ music.
Marc Brooks
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Eros in the first century’s Christian theology [PDF]

, 2015
For among most contemporaries, the concept of Eros seems to have nothing to do with Christianity. Sifting through the psychoanalysis of sexual fantasy, theologically it says nothing.
Marica, Adrian Mircea
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Football, Mysticism, Thomistic Poetics

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 63-81, January 2024.
Abstract This essay will especially consider the role of the cogitative power and affectivity in the formation of vocal utterances, showing how the Thomistic account of the integration of passion with reason provides a fascinating apparatus for assessing different uses of language—from the Eucharistic hymns of Aquinas, to the poetry of his Franciscan ...
Jose Isidro Belleza
wiley   +1 more source

Matching Game Preferences Through Dialogical Large Language Models: A Perspective

Applied Sciences
This perspective paper explores the future potential of “conversational intelligence” by examining how Large Language Models (LLMs) could be combined with GRAPHYP’s network system to better understand human conversations and preferences.
Renaud Fabre, Daniel Egret, Patrice Bellot   +2 more
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Metafísica y política en El nacimiento de la tragedia

Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía, 1999
This text aims at throwing light on the political thought which is implicit in The Birth of the Tragedy, and in the Posthumous Writings. Although politics appears not to be important in a work on aesthetics and metaphysics, the author shows that tragic ...
José Emilio Esteban Enguita
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Theology and the Secular [PDF]

, 2016
Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality, and the Self constitutes a major intervention in the debate over the role of religion in the modern world. Coakley criticizes Christians who reject modernity altogether, arguing that Christian thought should remain in ...
Newheiser, David
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Speaking (about) Substance: The Metaphysics of Rowan Williams and some Russian Philosophers

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 256-281, January 2024.
Abstract Russian religious culture has been a constant and prominent element of Rowan Williams’ work. This article demonstrates the affinity of Williams’ metaphysics with the work of two Russian philosopher‐theologians, whose influence on Williams is explicit: Sergii Bulgakov and Aleksei Losev.
Joshua Pulin Elvy Heath
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Dionysian cosmology

, 2015
In the Nietzschean philosophy, the concept of force from physics is important to build one of its main concepts: the will to power. The concept of force, which Nietzsche found out in the Classical Mechanics, almost disappears in the physics of the XX century with the Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity.
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