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The Creative Nature of Human Life in the Light of the Ideas of the Russian Philosophers
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 The article analyzes the understanding of the nature of creativity in the works of Russian religious philosophers. The fundamental importance of this topic for philosophical anthropology is derived from the obvious to the religious thinker circumstance ...
Vladimir Borisovich Aleksandrov
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Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2022 The article reviews the idea of cure or healing in Late antiquity, which was accepted by Christian tradition. According to this tradition, the healing effect is emerging simultaneously both in body and soul, and the very idea of cure or healing falls ...
I. N. Buzykina
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La figura del filosofo nel IV secolo d.C.
Aitia, 2015 Building on Julian the Emperor’s Letter to Themistius, the present contribution seeks to interpret the debate between Julian and Themistius on the relation between philosophy and kingship within the philosophical context of the 4th century AD.
Riccardo Chiaradonna
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Aesthetic Experience as a Spiritual Support of Homo Post-Secularis
Religions, 2019 The essay begins with an analysis of the cultural situation of humanity after its transition to secular mentality and a gradual disenchantment with secularism, which leads to the formation of post-secular mentality.
Victor Bychkov
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DAMASCIUS AND THE PRACTICE OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE: ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF COMMUNICATION ABOUT AND COMMUNION WITH THE FIRST PRINCIPLES [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2014 This paper is an overview and introduction to the key elements of Damascius’ philosophy. I examine the attributes and the relationship between the Ineffable, the One, and the All as the cornerstones of his theoretical system.
Kalogiratou, Androniki
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Virtues in Iamblichus and the Shift of Paradigm [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2010 This paper aims at pointing out differences between the perception of virtues in Plato’s Protagoras and especially the Symposium and in Iamblichus. The argument is focused on the fact that, although both philosophers agree that virtues can be taught and ...
Magoulas, Ch.
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Iamblichus’ Path to the Ineffable [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2010 Iamblichus of Chalcis postulated theurgy on metaphysical grounds as the only means of communion with the supreme principle of everything that exists. Iamblichus set this principle as a completely transcendent reality, unattainable by reason, and, at the ...
Molina, Jose
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 287-292, April 2025.ABSTRACT The scholars of nationalism have recognised that nationalist discourses often invoke magical events and frame national past in supernatural terms. This article explores the relationship between magic and nationalism in the contemporary world.
Siniša Malešević
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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2019 Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith.
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