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Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents [PDF]

, 2020
Augustine’s accounts of his so-called mystical experiences in conf. 7.10.16, 17.23, and 9.10.24 are puzzling. The primary problem is that, although in all three accounts he claims to have seen “that which is,” we have no satisfactory account of what ...
Andersen, Cooper, Rist, Severson, Sorabji   +4 more
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Converging ontologies: On some similarities between the Sāṃkhyakārikā and Plotinus's Enneads

Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 264-279, April 2025.
Abstract This article endeavors to conduct a comparative analysis between the philosophical systems of Plotinus and classical Sāṃkhya, two distinct philosophical traditions characterized by their substantial historical and cultural contexts. The primary aim of the study is to discern and evaluate the fundamental themes inherent in these philosophical ...
Federico Divino
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Vom Glasbläser oder Geist und Hauch, Diversitas und Assimilatio in Cusanus’ „De Genesi“

Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, 2021
Nicholas of Cusa’s “De genesi”, which begins as a commentary on the Book of  Genesis, offers a reflection on the unfolding of the Divine into the world.
Wolfgang Christian Schneider
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Neoplatonism in the Risala (De intellectu) of Alfarabi [PDF]

, 2010
The Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus played an important role in the development of the Aristotelian concepts of intellect and perception in the Arabic commentators on Aristotle.
Hendrix, John S
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Place as a Metaphysical Problem in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 292-310, April 2025.
Abstract Thomas Aquinas’ particular synthesis of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, and the intellectual tradition it inaugurated, has at least twice faced critical challenges from developments in physics. Besieged by the sixteenth and seventeenth century novatores and more or less ignored by the nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century practitioners of ...
Onsi Aaron Kamel
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God-Perfecting Man: Theurgical Elements in the Mysticism of Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (560/1165–638/1240) and Their Historical Significance

Religions
The following article aims at highlighting the theurgical tendencies in the teachings of the great Andalusī Muslim mystic Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (560/1165–638/1240).
Michael Ebstein
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Augustine on pagan knowledge of God and the Trinity

Studium: Filosofía y Teología, 2017
Augustine narrates in Confessions, VII, ix, 13-15 his encounter with the Platonist books, which permitted him to grasp the immateriality of God and surprisingly the Christian Trinity too, a thesis that seems confirmed in the psychological arguments he ...
Alfonso Herreros Besa
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BETWEEN THE SPACE OF THE IMAGINARY AND THE SPHERE OF IDEAS: ONTOLOGICAL MODEL OF PROCLUS AND IRANIAN NEOPLATONIC TRADITION OF SUHRAWARDĪ

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії, 2023
The article is devoted to the study of the influence of Neoplatonic concepts, in particular, the philosophy of Proclus on the discursive space of Iranian Neoplatonism.
Mykyta Artemenko
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Mit cyklopa w antyku i literaturze hiszpańskiej złotych wieków [PDF]

, 2014
W literaturze starożytnej obecne są dwa, biegunowo odmienne, motywy podania o Cyklopie: epicki, znany z IX ks. Odysei, przywołany później i poddany modyfikacji przez Eurypidesa w dramacie satyrowym Cyklop oraz liryczno-erotyczny spopularyzowany ...
Kłosińska-Nachin, Agnieszka, Zalewska-Jura, Hanna   +1 more
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150 Years of the Tetrahedral Carbon: A Toast to Chirality

Chirality, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2025.
By introducing 150 years ago, the notion of tetrahedral carbon on the basis of purely geometrical arguments, van't Hoff and Le Bel contributed decisively to view molecules as three‐dimensional entities, thus shaping first chemistry and later biology. This call for a celebration that tells a story on chirality as a whole.
Pedro Cintas
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