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Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20

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The present study attempts to show what influence a commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem.
A. S. Afonasina
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Manuscript “Neoplatonic Philosophy” by Pamfil D. Yurkevych: source criticism

Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2018
This article is the first to bring into scientific discussion and to provide a historico-philosophical analysis of a manuscript “Neoplatonic Philosophy from the archive of Pamfil Danylovych Yurkevych (1826–1874). The reviewed manuscript belongs to P.
Anna Pylypiuk
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The Doctrine of the Trinity: Intellectual Construct or Ontological Reality? Reflections from the Philosophy of Science

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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Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

, 2012
Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism: Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition #12) Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz, 2011 The belief in the immortality of the soul has ...
Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
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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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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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Magic Made Modern?: Re-evaluating the Novelty of the Golden Dawn’s Magic

Correspondences, 2014
This is an article in the history of magic that re-evaluates Alison Butler’s thesis regarding the novelty of the magical praxis of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Christopher A. Plaisance
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Patristic anthropology and the future of science

Studia Humanitatis, 2022
The article offers a brief review of the book “Ambrose of Milan and Aurelius Augustine about soul” by E.P. Aristova, and an interpretation of the significance of this work for the problems of science development and the prospects of European culture. The
Pirozhkova Sophia Vladislavovna
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Typology of negativity in the history of ancient philosophy: the analysis of the concepts of Democritus, Plotinus and Damascus

Вестник Мининского университета, 2019
Introduction: the article is devoted to the problem of apophatic tradition formation in the history of ancient philosophy. The research focuses on the issue of the source of negativity in Neoplatonism, analyzes the teachings of Plotinus and Damascus.
A. V. Bogomolov
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Pauliina Remes, Neoplatonism

, 2012
Gavray Marc-Antoine. Pauliina Remes, Neoplatonism. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 110, n°1, 2012. pp.
Gavray, Marc-Antoine
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