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Theurgy, Paredroi, and Embodied Power in Neoplatonism and Late Antique Celestial Hierarchies

Religions
This article will place the rituals of the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) for the acquisition of a supernatural assistant (paredros) into conversation with broader late antique debates surrounding the place of daimones within the celestial hierarchy.
Katarina Pejovic
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L’« Anonyme » : un palimpseste démocritéen dans le Protreptique de Jamblique ?

Kentron, 2012
Iamblichus, in the Protrepticus, brings together many texts mainly borrowed from unnamed philosophers, first and foremost from Plato and Aristotle, into a broad synthesis, framing all of these quoted fragments with a syncretic ...
Michelle Lacore
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Good reasons to philosophize: On Hadot, Cooper, and ancient philosophical protreptic

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 231-248, April 2024.
Abstract This paper reassesses the Cooper‐Hadot debate surrounding how students are converted to philosophy as a way of life (section 1) through engagement with philosophical protreptics. In section 2, the paper identifies the core “argument from finality” in philosophical protreptics seeking to convert non‐philosophers to philosophy, starting from the
Matthew Sharpe
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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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Virtues in Iamblichus and the Shift of Paradigm [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2010
This paper aims at pointing out differences between the perception of virtues in Plato’s Protagoras and especially the Symposium and in Iamblichus. The argument is focused on the fact that, although both philosophers agree that virtues can be taught and ...
Magoulas, Ch.
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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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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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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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Ars vitae in Iamblichus and in the Stoic Seneca [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2010
Seneca expounds a theory of therapy and teaching with the ultimate goal of self knowledge and wisdom. Some of his techniques are based on Pythagorean principles or derive ideas from them, among them the focused and constant ascesis of self control ...
Eliopoulos, Panos
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