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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Plotinus and the Artistic Imagination [PDF]
, 2015 In the thought of Plotinus, the imagination is responsible for the apprehension of the activity of Intellect. If creativity in the arts involves an exercise of the imagination, the image-making power that links sense perception to noetic thought and the ...
Hendrix, John S
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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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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Converging ontologies: On some similarities between the Sāṃkhyakārikā and Plotinus's Enneads
Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 264-279, April 2025.Abstract This article endeavors to conduct a comparative analysis between the philosophical systems of Plotinus and classical Sāṃkhya, two distinct philosophical traditions characterized by their substantial historical and cultural contexts. The primary aim of the study is to discern and evaluate the fundamental themes inherent in these philosophical ...
Federico Divino
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Philosophy of Intellect and Vision in the De anima and De intellectu of Alexander of Aphrodisias [PDF]
, 2010 Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 198–209) was born somewhere around 150, in Aphrodisia on the Aegean Sea. He began his career in Alexandria during the reign of Septimius Severus, was appointed to the peripatetic chair at the Lyceum in Athens in 198, a ...
Hendrix, John S
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Homo Poeta: Rowan Williams and Poetic Anthropology
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 96-119, January 2025.Abstract Rowan Williams's trinitarian ontology rests on the affirmation of eros within God and the ‘irreducible otherness’ of the divine persons to one another. The divine persons are accordingly conceived in ek‐static terms as ‘giving more than they are’.
Patrick John McGlinchey
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An Exposition of Augustine\u27s Theodicy: From Its Influences to Its Modern Application [PDF]
, 2011 This paper delineates the thrust of Augustine\u27s theodicy against the broader background of his Christian Neoplatonic outlook. We examine Augustine\u27s initial Manichean influences and see how these beliefs carry over to his mature thought, which is ...
Gray, Kevin J.
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Thoughts on the structure of the history of Africana philosophy
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue S1, Page 17-37, September 2024.Abstract This article seeks to comment insightfully on the way things hang together as we try to chart the history of Africana philosophy. It does so through reflections on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast, part of Peter Adamson's larger series, the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps.
Chike Jeffers
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Neoplatonism in the Risala (De intellectu) of Alfarabi [PDF]
, 2010 The Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus played an important role in the development of the Aristotelian concepts of intellect and perception in the Arabic commentators on Aristotle.
Hendrix, John S
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