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A Comparative Study of Beauty and its Relation to Pleasure and Goodness in the Philosophy of Plotinus and Avicenna [PDF]
The truth and nature of beauty, as a secondary intelligible (Arabic: مَعْقولُ الْثَّانی, romanized: maʿqūl al-thānī), have become a topic of discussion among philosophers.
Muḥammūd Ṣeydiī +1 more
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Plotinus’ famous treatise against the Gnostics (33), together with contemporary and thematically related treatises on Intelligible Beauty (31), on Number (34), and on Free Will and the Will of the One (39), can be seen as providing the essential ...
Butler, Edward P.
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The challenge of the oceanic feeling: Romain Rolland’s mystical critique of psychoanalysis and his call for a ‘new science of the mind’ [PDF]
In a letter written in 1927, the French writer Romain Rolland asked Sigmund Freud to analyse the “oceanic feeling,” a religious feeling of oneness with the entire universe.
Maharaj, Ayon
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This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores ...
Emilsson, Eyjolfur +3 more
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Philosophical Theology and Indian Versions of Theodicy [PDF]
Comparative philosophical studies can seek to fit some Eastern patterns of thought into the general philosophical framework, or, on the contrary, to improve understanding of Western ones through the view "from abroad". I try to hit both marks by means of
Shokhin, Vladimir K.
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Philosophy of Intellect and Vision in the De anima of Themistius [PDF]
Themistius (317–c. 387) was born into an aristocratic family and ran a paripatetic school of philosophy in Constantinople in the mid-fourth century, between 345 and 355.
Hendrix, John S
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On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research. [PDF]
Sjöstedt-Hughes P.
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The net in the sea : a note to Plotinus' en. IV 3(27).9.34–44
In Plotinus’ first treatise, On the Problems of the Soul, the comparison of the cosmic body floating in the soul to a net in the sea is simple enough, at least at first glance. While most of the translators and experts have no doubts that the net in this
Sonja Weiss
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Commentary: Physical time within human time. [PDF]
Elliott MA.
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Leon Battista Alberti and the Concept of Lineament [PDF]
A core idea in the architectural theory of Leon Battista Alberti, as expressed in the De re aedificatoria, is the distinction between “lineament,” the line in the mind of the architect, and “matter,” the material presence of the building.
Hendrix, John S
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