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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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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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A misinterpreted psychoanalyst: Herbert Silberer and his theory of symbol‐formation
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2024.Abstract The primary aim of this article is to give a more detailed exposition of the cultural, personal, and theoretical contexts in which the Viennese psychoanalyst, Herbert Silberer's theories were born. When assessing the broader picture that this approach offers, it can be concluded that Silberer was an innovative thinker who inspired several of ...
Júlia Gyimesi
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Creation and Divine Providence in Plotinus [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, we argue that Plotinus denies deliberative forethought about the physical cosmos to the demiurge on the basis of certain basic and widely shared Platonic and Aristotelian assumptions about the character of divine thought.
Noble, Christopher, Powers, Nathan
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 70-90, January 2024.Abstract This article draws on the distinction between instrumentalism and realism in the philosophy of science to consider the merits of two possible approaches to the doctrine of the Trinity. One considers this doctrine to be an intellectual construct, which coordinates multiple insights about the nature and action of God; the other considers it to ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Amor y deseo en textos de Fernando de Herrera, humanista, poeta neoplatónico y estoico
Criticón, 2017 This article proposes and develops the particular relationship that has to be established between the Neoplatonic conception of love and a series of Neostoic motives that had been developed since the middle of the sixteenth-century.
Lía Schwartz
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Surprise, Hope and Gift: A Pneumatological Account of the Unexpected Nature of Vocation
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 91-110, January 2024.Abstract God's call can be surprising and unexpected. This article evaluates theologies of vocation in light of this potential for surprise. Contemporary Protestant theological interpretations of vocation are critiqued as incomplete due to their tendency to present vocation as the expression and utilisation of innate abilities without giving sufficient
Cara F. Lovell
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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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The Concept of Matter in the Typology of Philosophical Worldviews
RUDN Journal of PhilosophyThe study defines the typology of philosophical worldviews, from naturalistic (various types of materialism and positivism) to pantheistic (naturalistic and mystical or panentheistic) and transcendent, underlying world religions and the corresponding ...
Sergei A. Nizhnikov, Anna V. Martseva
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Il noeîn parmenideo (DK 28 B3) nella concezione plotiniana del Noûs
Methodos, 2016 The present paper aims to show how Plotinus, in a perspective that remains essentially Platonic, interprets the notion of noeîn in Parmenides, especially in the light of the well known Fr. 3 DK, on the identity of being and thought. It needs to point out
Michele Abbate
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