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Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2003 This paper aims to study Proclus's ascetic way of life in his pursuit of the assimilation to the divine. We will see how the practice of asceticism raises him to the rank of a divine man in his disciples' eyes.
Yvan Bubloz
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Beyond the Polemics: Freedom and Necessity in Plotinus and St Maximus Confessor
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 49-63, January 2024.Abstract Abstract: The aim of this paper is to challenge the prevailing polemic between ‘necessary’ emanation and ‘free’ creation. I begin by arguing for the presence of freedom and volition in the emanationism of Plotinus. I then move on to explore the role of necessity in the creationism of Maximus. In both cases, I rely upon a twofold schematisation
Daniel Heide
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The Conjectural Art as Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others: Tradition and Innovation
Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, 2021 In the last chapter of “De coniecturis”, Cusanus exhorts his friend, Cardinal Giuli ano Cesarini, to get to know himself. This classical philosophical topic is revisited by Cusanus here in an original manner.
Claudia D’Amico
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.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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AS FIGURAS NOS ELEMENTOS DE EUCLIDES
Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática, 2020 Na antiguidade e na Idade Média, o modo por excelência de abordagem de uma obra e do seu ensino era o Comentário. Assim, o Comentário ao Primeiro Livro dos ELEMENTOS de Euclides, escrito por Proclus.
Irineu Bicudo
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Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії, 2023 The article is devoted to the study of the influence of Neoplatonic concepts, in particular, the philosophy of Proclus on the discursive space of Iranian Neoplatonism.
Mykyta Artemenko
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Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Divine Providence - De Potentia Dei 3, 7 and Super Librum de Causis Expositio [PDF]
, 2019 The main goal of this paper is tocompare how Thomas Aquinas expressedhis doctrine of providence through second-ary causes, making use of both Aristotelianand Neo-Platonic principles, in the seventharticle of the third question of his Quaes ...
Silva, Ignacio
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 82-96, January 2024.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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Person and Nature, Hypostasis and Substance: Philosophical Basis of the Theology of John Philoponus [PDF]
, 2016 The theological teachings of John Philoponus are important for several reasons: a) to see the real achievements and influences of Aristotelian logic in regard to theology, b) to see the real consequences of not accepting hypostasis as relational and ...
Djakovac, Aleksandar
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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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