Eros In Neoplatonism And Its Reception In Christian Philosophy
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Eros In Neoplatonism And Its Reception In Christian Philosophy
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Author : Dimitrios A. Vasilakis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12-24
Eros In Neoplatonism And Its Reception In Christian Philosophy written by Dimitrios A. Vasilakis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-24 with Philosophy categories.
Showing the ontological importance of eros within the philosophical systems inspired by Plato, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis examines the notion of eros in key texts of the Neoplatonic philosophers, Plotinus, Proclus, and the Church Father, Dionysius the Areopagite. Outlining the divergences and convergences between the three brings forward the core idea of love as deficiency in Plotinus and charts how this is transformed into plenitude in Proclus and Dionysius. Does Proclus diverge from Plotinus in his hierarchical scheme of eros? Is the Dionysian hierarchy to be identified with Proclus' classification of love? By analysing The Enneads, III.5, the Commentary on the First Alcibiades and the Divine Names side by side, Vasilakis uses a wealth of modern scholarship, including contemporary Greek literature to explore these questions, tracing a clear historical line between the three seminal late antique thinkers.
Eros In Neoplatonism And Its Reception In Christian Philosophy
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Author : Dimitrios A. Vasilakis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Eros In Neoplatonism And Its Reception In Christian Philosophy written by Dimitrios A. Vasilakis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Christianity categories.
"Speaking to vital scholarship in ancient philosophy, including contemporary Greek academia, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis examines the notion of Love (Eros) in the key texts of Neoplatonic philosophers; Plotinus, Proclus, and the Church Father, Dionysius the Areopagite. The book outlines the crucial interplay between Plotinus, Proclus, and Dionysius' ideas on love and hierarchy in relation to both the earthly and the divine. Through analysing key texts from each philosopher, this enlightening study traces a clear historical line between pagan Neoplatonism and early Christian philosophy"--
The Geometry Of Christian Contemplation
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Author : David Albertson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-05-16
The Geometry Of Christian Contemplation written by David Albertson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-16 with Religion categories.
The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than ever before. But do modern assumptions about religious experience influence how we hear those premodern voices? Do we do them justice by thinking of mysticism as interior and ineffable? Or can mystical experience intersect with the natural environment, and indeed the cosmos, which science calculates with precise quantities? David Albertson's The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure without Measure suggests a fresh approach to the history of mystical theology that is oriented toward exteriority more than interiority, and toward the measurable world outside more than the invisible world within. The ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus had taught contemplatives to close their eyes and withdraw into the soul. Most Christians followed his directions, but others dissented. In three critical episodes, an alternative model of Christian contemplation began to emerge: from Dionysius the Areopagite, to the Byzantine monks John of Damascus and Theodore the Studite, to eccentric humanists in medieval Paris. Together these episodes add up to a very different theological aesthetics, one that can enliven the modern study of mysticism and correct some of its imbalances. For in the centuries before the scientific revolution and the secularization of nature, Christians still saw God in the exterior world, not only the interior soul. God was not an ineffable and formless Absolute, immeasurable as the soul, but an infinite Measure who leaves behind geometrical traces in the figures of the world. The God who became a human body in the Incarnation not only entered time and matter, but also spatial extension, and with it the conditions of measure: points, lines, curves, shapes, planes, dimensions, and magnitudes. Today the wisdom of this counter-tradition can strengthen the study of mysticism, not only by supplementing our contemporary fascination with negative theology by redefining what it means to name God positively, but by suggesting a new connection between Christian mysticism and the hyper-measured, hyper-technologized world that surrounds us.
Nicholas Of Methone Reader Of Proclus In Byzantium
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2025-05-19
Nicholas Of Methone Reader Of Proclus In Byzantium written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-19 with Philosophy categories.
This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th–12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally regarded as a polemical commentator on the late Neoplatonist Proclus, this volume highlights Nicholas' substantial contribution to metaphysics and philosophical theology. It also situates his work within the broader intellectual context where Neoplatonism and its relation to Byzantine Christian theology were actively debated. The contributions gathered here are of particular significance for those interested in the Byzantine afterlife of late antique Neoplatonism and its legacy in the later Byzantine tradition and the Renaissance.
Later Platonists And Their Heirs Among Christians Jews And Muslims
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Author : Eva Anagnostou
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-12-28
Later Platonists And Their Heirs Among Christians Jews And Muslims written by Eva Anagnostou and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-28 with Religion categories.
Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews and Muslims offers a thought-provoking exploration of the reception of Platonism among communities of faith from early Christianity to the sixteenth century, from the Byzantine East to the Latin West. Rare emphasis is placed on the importance of Platonic thought and its diffusion in late antique and medieval Syria, Armenia, and Georgia but also among Arab and Jewish intellectuals from the seventh century onwards. As such, the volume makes a statement against the separation of Neoplatonic philosophy from Christianity and the other Abrahamic faiths, since all four traditions promoted a life of virtue and goodness despite operating under different divine auspices. The volume seeks to establish paths of transmission and modes of adaptation across times and places.
Plotinus On The Contemplation Of The Intelligible World
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Author : Mateusz Stróżyński
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-30
Plotinus On The Contemplation Of The Intelligible World written by Mateusz Stróżyński and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
This study offers an innovative understanding of the central role of the act of contemplation in the philosophy of Plotinus.
The Best Effect
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Author : Ryan Darr
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-12-06
The Best Effect written by Ryan Darr and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-06 with Religion categories.
A theological history of consequentialism and a fresh agenda for teleological ethics. Consequentialism—the notion that we can judge an action by its effects alone—has been among the most influential approaches to ethics and public policy in the Anglophone world for more than two centuries. In The Best Effect, Ryan Darr argues that consequentialist ethics is not as secular or as rational as it is often assumed to be. Instead, Darr describes the emergence of consequentialism in the seventeenth century as a theological and cosmological vision and traces its intellectual development and eventual secularization across several centuries. The Best Effect reveals how contemporary consequentialism continues to bear traces of its history and proposes in its place a more expansive vision for teleological ethics.
Deus Est Caritas The Voice Of Gabriele Biondo On Personal Justification And Church Reform
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Author : Vito Guida
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-04
Deus Est Caritas The Voice Of Gabriele Biondo On Personal Justification And Church Reform written by Vito Guida and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-04 with Philosophy categories.
The book examines the life and the writings of Gabriele Biondo, a secular priest who lived in the little town of Modigliana between the second half of the fifteenth century and the first decades of the sixteenth century. Through a careful examination of his writings and the sources he used, this book allows the reader to obtain a more precise understanding of Biondo, his background, his life, his movements, the difficulties that he encountered (mainly with the ecclesiastical authorities and the other members of the clergy, but also with civic leaders), and the main events of his life. Additionally, Biondo was the leader of a minor following formed by nuns, secular women, and laymen. Therefore, this book illustrates Biondo’s pastoral activity, the ideas and principles that supported his actions, and the objectives he was pursuing. Given these various objectives, this book is of interest to those scholars and academics interested in the religious tensions that swept through Europe in the years immediately preceding the Protestant Reformation and who, consequently, seek to investigate Biondo’s personal and complex answer to these tensions.
Higher Education And Love
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Author : Victoria de Rijke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-01
Higher Education And Love written by Victoria de Rijke and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Education categories.
This book explicitly unites the concepts of higher education and love to examine how these concepts are mutually compatible. As the world of higher education moves towards the metrics of value, and the worth of knowledge becomes more valued in its use rather than its discovery, a crisis brews. If higher education is to contribute to the wellbeing of the self and of others, then the institution needs to be radically reviewed to see if, and how, love contributes to higher education within and beyond its walls. This book addresses the core question of what would the university might be like, today and into the future, if the timeless notion of love was the basis of its educative process, notwithstanding the material artefacts the university helps to create, but also as a way of framing approaches to higher education.
Theophany
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Author : Eric D. Perl
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2008-06-05
Theophany written by Eric D. Perl and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-05 with Philosophy categories.
Situates Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite as a Neoplatonic philosopher in the tradition of Plotinus and Proclus.