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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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Theurgical project of Silver Age: from origins to problem statement [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017 Two turning points in the history of theurgy are examined in the present article. Those points had a considerable influence on the conceptualization of that phenomenon in the very beginning of the XX century, especially in the researches of the Russian ...
Nina Penyaflor Rastorgueva
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, 2017 An aporia posed by Theophrastus prompts Priscian to describe the process by which perception formally assimilates to its object as a progressive perfection. I present an interpretation of Priscian’s account of perception’s progressive perfection.
Kalderon, Mark Eli
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]
, 2019 The present chapter aims at offering insights into Dionysius the Areopagite’s notion of theurgy, both with respect to the metaphysical principles that connect with “θεουργία” and the particular sacramental reality that emerges from it. Pavlos argues that
Pavlos, Panagiotis G.
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The symbolic model for algebra : functions and mechanisms [PDF]
, 2010 The symbolic mode of reasoning in algebra, as it emerged during the sixteenth century, can be considered as a form of model-based reasoning. In this paper we will discuss the functions and mechanisms of this model and show how the model relates to its ...
A. Heeffer +6 more
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Al-Fārābi on the Role of Philosophy of History in the History of Civilization [PDF]
, 2018 This volume constitutes an attempt at bringing together philosophies of time—or more precisely, philosophies on time and, in a concomitant way, history—emerging from Christianity’s and Islam’s intellectual histories.
Steiris, Georgios
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Le fragment 43 (des Places) de Numénius : problèmes de présentation, essais d’interprétation
Études Platoniciennes, 2013 The presentation of the fragments and testimonies about Numenius' thought is a real challenge for the editors. The order in which the texts are presented is decisive as far as the image of the philosopher they want to give to the reader is concerned.
Fabienne Jourdan
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One aspect of the methodology of cognition in Plato and Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2008 Petr Moiseev (Perm State Institute of Arts and Culture)shows how the concept of ascension to truth, first formulated by Plato, was later reworked and reevaluated in new cognitive context by such later thinkers, as Plutarch, Iamblichus and, finally ...
Moiseev, Petr
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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2019 Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith.
Emilsson, Eyjolfur +3 more
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