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Creation and science in the Middle Ages
Published 2007“…The reception of Greek learning in mediaeval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity was the occasion for a profound analysis of many theological doctrines. In particular, Neoplatonism and Aristotelian philosophy led to renewed thinking about what it means for God to be the Creator of all that is. …”
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Dialectic into Dialogos and the Pragmatics of No-thingness in a Time of Crisis
Published 2021-10-01“…Nishitani and Neoplatonism both argue that overcoming the nihilism of non-being requires a confrontation with, and cultivation of, the experience of nothingness. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF PACIFISM IN THE THOUGHT OF RENAISSANCE ENGLAND AT THE BEGINNING OF XVI CENTURY
Published 2017-09-01“…The authors consider that the attempt to identify the Colet-More-Erasmus’s pacifist concept as an adoption the ideas from the Florentine Neoplatonism, J. Savonarola or the Lollardism is inefficient way. …”
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Love as Descent: Comparing the Models of Proclus and Dionysius through Eriugena
Published 2021-09-01“…This paper explores the models of the providential-erotic descent in Neoplatonism and Christianity and the ethical consequences that these two models entail. …”
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Pagans and Christians: fifty years of anxiety
Published 2019“…Pagan and Christian draws both on his non-academic interests and on his past research into Neoplatonism, Greek literature, Greek religion, and the ‘irrational’, encompassing the supernormal or paranormal in antiquity. …”
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Thomas Aquinas and Philosophy
Published 2009-09-01“…This made his adepts, especially the Franciscans, to criticise him, even though they also described Christianity using a philosophical system, i.e. Neoplatonism.…”
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Exercice de l’œil, exercice de la main : le dessin comme exercice de soi à l’époque de la Renaissance maniériste
Published 2021-02-01“…It relies on a thorough investigation on the philosophical sources (such as Aristotelism and Neoplatonism) of these artistic theories. For the mannerists, art is a subjective quality that is granted by practice and custom; drawing practice, for instance, is supposed to help the artist create with ease and facility, improving both his manual dexterity and the accuracy of his judgement. …”
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S.L. Frank on the Path to Social Philosophy: Experience of Comparative Analysis: G. Simmel, E. Husserl, M. Scheler
Published 2023-09-01“…The author shows that Frank, who adhered to psychologism in his methodology until 1915, makes a choice in favor of Neoplatonism, the latest form of which he finds in Husserl’s transcendental philosophy. …”
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Rediscovering the Greeks – The Impact of Intensified Contacts Between Western Europe and The Byzantine World on Shaping Humanistic Thought from the Perspective of Istria
Published 2020-01-01“…The main part of the article follows, containing a detailed analysis of the described elements of „rediscovering” Greek cultural heritage – interest in Greek language, literature, culture and philosophy (particularly Neoplatonism), in translations, the editing and publishing of Greek classics, as well as in the presence of the idea of a common European identity based on a common ancient heritage, and the voices advocating for the formation of a united Christian European front against the Ottomans.…”
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Intellectual Hegemony, Conversion Discourse and Early Christian Apologetic Literature
Published 2021-09-01“…Apart from other religions, early Christian ‘Apologists’ faced predominantly Middle Platonism, Stoicism, Neopythagoreanism and, last but not least, Neoplatonism. In doing so they adopted a number of rhetoric and social strategies at hand; strategies that, although intended to turn the Other into the Same—which they did achieve, albeit gradually—ended up turning the Same into the Other as well.…”
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Esotericism and the Scholastic Imagination: The Origins of Esoteric Practice in Christian Kataphatic Spirituality
Published 2016-12-01“…While the esoteric vis imaginativa is usually attributed to the infux of Neoplatonism in the Italian Renaissance, this article argues that many of its key properties were already in place in medieval scholasticism. …”
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Proclus' Elaboration of Platonic Remarks on the Problem of Evils, and their Relation to Divine Providence and Efficiency
Published 2014-06-01“…Proclus is the most distinguished philosopher of the later Neoplatonism whose view became authoritative within the School and thus is most representative of the Neoplatonic doctrine of evil. …”
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La “musica degli angeli”: Josquin Desprez al liceo
Published 2019-12-01“…Music and singing, which are present in every form of worship in the Christian rite, have acquired from the outset a very particular connotation, in which Jewish tradition and Neoplatonism have merged: every musical manifestation in the liturgy has as its model the perennial praise given to God from the angelic choirs. …”
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Causality at Lower Levels: The Demiurgical Unity of the Second and Third God according to Numenius of Apamea
Published 2023-12-01“… Numenius is an author who straddles the line between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism. In this contribution, I focus on the differences between the second and the third God, which emerge from analyses of the relevant fragments. …”
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Comprehension of the historical process in the theological heritage of Origen of Alexandria
Published 2023-06-01“…Origen of Alexandria is a large Christian thinker who worked in line with the philosophy of Platonism, Neoplatonism and the emerging Christian tradition. He is a significant figure, both in Christian theology and in the history of philosophy, who especially strongly influenced the medieval period of the development of philosophical thought. …”
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KITAB AL-ALIM WA AL-GHULAM OF JAFAR B. MANSUR AL-YAMAN AS AN EXAMPLE OF EARLY ISMA’ILI LITERATURE
Published 2014-09-01“…In later Fatimid texts the influence of Neoplatonism is quite visible. <em>Kitab al-alim wa-al-ghulam (</em>Book of the Master and the Disciple) of Ja’far b. …”
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Two models of catharsis in the cultural tradition of Europe
Published 2019-06-01“…The catharsis practices are examined on the examples of ancient mysteries, Neoplatonism and hesychasm.Discussion. The result of the research is the distinction between two models of catharsis in the cultural tradition of Europe.Conclusion. …”
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Influence of H. Skovoroda on the Formation of the Ukrainian Cordocentric Tradition
Published 2020-07-01“…The research points out that the philosopher’s work was greatly influenced by both the ideas of the German mysticism and ancient traditions, in particular those of pantheism and Neoplatonism, which can be traced in the preceding Ukrainian philosophical thought. …”
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Why Three? An exploration of the origins of the doctrine of the Trinity with reference to Platonism and Gnosticism
Published 2014“…It is possible that the Triple-Powered One pre-empted the Being-Mind-Life triad of Neoplatonism.</p> …”
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The structure of the first forty-five questions of the Summa theologiae of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Published 1982“…It finds also an incompletely resolved tension between simplicity and self-relation which are drawn from the contrary Neoplatonic logics of infinite and finite. The thesis concludes that Thomas is better understood as part of the Neoplatonic development of systematic thought than from existentialist perspectives opposed to this tradition.…”
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