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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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The Ascension of the Soul in Plotinus’ Enneads
according to Plotinus, it is possible for the soul of the philosopher to follow a way of ascension towards the superior realities. This way is composed of two parts.
Bernardo Brandão
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
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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Abstract This article argues that freedom in the divine creative act is better understood as a freedom of consent rather than freedom of will. However, even if some conundrums are thus avoided, one has to face the apparent antinomy between both God's creative act from His very nature and God's absolute freedom.
Isabelle Moulin
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Chaldean and Neo-Platonic Theology [PDF]
In the present paper, the meanings the term “Chaldeans” acquired during the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are presented, but mainly the role the Chaldean Oracles played inside the movement of Neo-Platonism is emphasized. The stratification of Being
Viglas, Katelis
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Les formes du χωρισμός chez Plotin
The philosophical term χωρισμός indicates a particular form of separation that is distinct from the metaphysical separation between the sensitive and the intelligible.
Étienne Ménard
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La beauté d'Hélène ou la médiation du Beau dans les Traités 31 (V,8) et 48 (III,3) de Plotin
In his treatises 31 (V,8) and 48 (III,3), Plotinus refers to Helen’s beauty ; he is thus challenging a topos of ancient Greek Literature. After recalling the various traditional interpretations of this controversial figure, we scrutinize the way through ...
Anne-Lise Worms
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The traditional attribution of On Sublimity to the third-century critic Cassius Longinus has been rejected by most scholars since the early nineteenth century. The arguments against a third-century date are examined and shown to be unfounded.
Heath, M.
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Political Implications of Plotinus’s Philosophy [PDF]
Interpreters of classical philosophy, especially those concentrating on the philosophy of Plotinus, mostly believe that he, in contrast with Plato who laid the foundations of political philosophy, was not concerned with politics and the introduction of ...
shervin moghimi zanjani, hatam qaderi
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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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