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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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Neoplatonism in science: Past and future [PDF]
, 2007 In this article I argue that modern Neoplatonism can contribute to a revitalization of science and an improved human relationship to nature. I begin by considering the role of Neoplatonism in the history of science, considering both ideas that have ...
Bruce Maclennan
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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 WratislaviensiaThe 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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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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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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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 239-257, May 2024.Abstract In this essay, I argue that Hegel's Absolute must be understood to be transcendent in the sense of being both immanent within the world and exceeding it. This account of transcendence invariably turns on Hegel's inheritance of the Christian tradition and, in particular, the metaphysics espoused through Christian Platonism.
Kyle J. Barbour
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Philip Merlan, From Platonism to Neoplatonism [PDF]
, 1964 De Strycker Émile. Philip Merlan, From Platonism to Neoplatonism. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 33, fasc. 1, 1964. pp.
De Strycker, Émile
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Reviews in Religion &Theology, Volume 31, Issue 1-2, Page 3-11, February-April 2024.Abstract This review article examines and summarizes the key ideas and contributions of Nikolaos Loudovikos' book Analogical Identities: The Creation of the Christian Self – Beyond Spirituality and Mysticism in the Patristic Era. The book offers a reimagining of Christian anthropology and the understanding of the self by critiquing what the author sees
Sotiris Mitralexis
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