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Pico della Mirandola and the Presocratics [PDF]

, 2018
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) decided to study all the ancient and medieval schools of philosophy, including the Pre-Socratics, in order to broaden his scope. Pico showed interest in ancient monists.
Steiris, Georgios
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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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La sciencia theorica speculativa en la construcción gótica. El promotor eclesiástico de la catedral medieval

Hispania Sacra, 2014
La construcción de las catedrales góticas puede considerarse como un trasvase de conocimiento entre las figuras eclesiásticas del obispo y Capítulo, y el arquitecto medieval.
Josep Lluis i Ginovart
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Theological Implications of the Simulation Argument [PDF]

, 2010
Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument (SA) has many intriguing theological implications. We work out some of them here. We show how the SA can be used to develop novel versions of the Cosmological and Design Arguments. We then develop some of the affinities
Steinhart, Eric
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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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THE PROBLEM OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREDESTINATION AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT

Russian Studies in Culture and Society
Background. The subject of the research in this article is one of the most fundamental worldview problems - the question of the relationship between free will and predestination in the religious and philosophical context.
Dar'ya A. Nadeina, Oleg V. Chekrygin
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The ‘End’ of Memory: Memory, the Porous Self, and the Communion of Saints in Augustine's Confessions

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 251-273, July 2024.
Abstract This article presents a brief, constructive, theological account of memory in response to contemporary questions regarding memory loss via Augustine's account of memory, which elucidates the remembering subject's openness and relatedness to God and the communion of saints.
Abraham S‐C Wu
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Zagadnienie zła a teodycea w myśli muzułmańskiej

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
The existence of evil in our world seems to pose a serious challenge to belief in the existence of a perfect God. If God were all-knowing, it seems that God would know about all of the horrible things that happen in our world.
Zikri Yavuz
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Medieval Neoplatonism in Borges

Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2007
This paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, the A. describes Borges’ particular concern about medieval philosophy as a reader. In the second and larger part, she refers to medieval neoplatonism main notes and claims that the argentine ...
Silvia Magnavacca
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Phantasia et nous pathêtikos

Methodos, 2016
Proclus, in his theory of projection of the geometrical figures, is the first one to assimilate the phantasia (imagination) with the nous pathêtikos (passive intellect) evoked furtively by Aristote in De anima III, 5. While maintaining this assimilation,
Milan Otal
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