Plotinus Amid Gnostics And Christians
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Plotinus Amid Gnostics And Christians
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Author : David T. Runia
language : en
Publisher: Vu Uitgeverij/Free University Press
Release Date : 1984
Plotinus Amid Gnostics And Christians written by David T. Runia and has been published by Vu Uitgeverij/Free University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Philosophy categories.
Against The Gnostics
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Author : Plotinus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-14
Against The Gnostics written by Plotinus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-14 with categories.
At least two modern conferences within Hellenic philosophy fields of study have been held in order to address what Plotinus stated in his tract Against the Gnostics and whom he was addressing it to, in order to separate and clarify the events and persons involved in the origin of the term "Gnostic". From the dialogue, it appears that the word had an origin in the Platonic and Hellenistic tradition long before the group calling themselves "Gnostics"--or the group covered under the modern term "Gnosticism"--ever appeared. It would seem that this shift from Platonic to Gnostic usage has led many people to confusion. The strategy of sectarians taking Greek terms from philosophical contexts and re-applying them to religious contexts was popular in Christianity, the Cult of Isis and other ancient religious contexts including Hermetic ones (see Alexander of Abonutichus for an example).Plotinus and the Neoplatonists viewed Gnosticism as a form of heresy or sectarianism to the Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy of the Mediterranean and Middle East. He accused them of using senseless jargon and being overly dramatic and insolent in their distortion of Plato's ontology." Plotinus attacks his opponents as untraditional, irrational and immoral and arrogant. He also attacks them as elitist and blasphemous to Plato for the Gnostics despising the material world and its maker.The Neoplatonic movement (though Plotinus would have simply referred to himself as a philosopher of Plato) seems to be motivated by the desire of Plotinus to revive the pagan philosophical tradition. Plotinus was not claiming to innovate with the Enneads, but to clarify aspects of the works of Plato that he considered misrepresented or misunderstood. Plotinus does not claim to be an innovator, but rather a communicator of a tradition. Plotinus referred to tradition as a way to interpret Plato's intentions. Because the teachings of Plato were for members of the academy rather than the general public, it was easy for outsiders to misunderstand Plato's meaning. However, Plotinus attempted to clarify how the philosophers of the academy had not arrived at the same conclusions (such as misotheism or dystheism of the creator God as an answer to the problem of evil) as the targets of his criticism.
Plotinus In Dialogue With The Gnostics
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Author : Jean-Marc Narbonne
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-03-18
Plotinus In Dialogue With The Gnostics written by Jean-Marc Narbonne and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-18 with Philosophy categories.
The point of view put forth in the following pages differs greatly from the common perspective according to which the treatises 30 to 33 constitute a single work, a Großschrift, and this single work, Plotinus’ essential response to the Gnostics. Our perspective is that of an ongoing discussions with his “Gnostic”—yet Platonizing—friends, which started early in his writings (at least treatise 6), developed into what we could call a Großzyklus (treatises 27 to 39), and went on in later treatises as well (e. g. 47-48, 51).
Introduction And Commentary To Plotinus Treatise 33 Ii 9 Against The Gnostics And Related Studies
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Author : Jean-Marc Narbonne
language : fr
Publisher: Presses de l'Université Laval
Release Date : 2019-02-08T00:00:00-05:00
Introduction And Commentary To Plotinus Treatise 33 Ii 9 Against The Gnostics And Related Studies written by Jean-Marc Narbonne and has been published by Presses de l'Université Laval this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 with Philosophy categories.
Plotinus’ Treatise 33 (II.9), entitled Against the Gnostics, is one of the most fascinating and complex writings of the Roman Neoplatonic master, as well as one of the most polemical, as it is the sole treatise to openly side against a rival sect or school of thought. We here present the reader with the full analysis of this exceptional treatise, in its original English, of Zeke Mazur (), one of the scholars most deeply versed in the connections between the Gnostics, most notably those identified as belonging to a subgroup of Platonising Sethians, and the first generation of Neoplatonists (i.e. Plotinus, Amelius, and Porphyry). An abridged and simplified version of the English original, accompanied by a translation of Treatise 33 (II.9) itself, will appear in 2018 in French in the Collection des Universités de France, alias the Collection Budé.
Six Lectures On Plotinus And Gnosticism
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Author : Th.G. Sinnige
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Six Lectures On Plotinus And Gnosticism written by Th.G. Sinnige and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with Religion categories.
In this book an attempt is made to single out those elements in the philosophical system of the Enneads that stand apart from the Platonist tradition. On the basis of an extensive analysis of fundamental texts the author shows that what Plotinus had in mind was a quite independent paradigm of metaphysical theology, with at its centre the human person.
Porphyry Against The Christians
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Author : Robert M. Berchman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005
Porphyry Against The Christians written by Robert M. Berchman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Philosophy categories.
Porphyry's "Against the Christians" offers an important example of Hellenic Biblical criticism and a critique of Christianity at the close of Late Antiquity, fl. 300 C.E.
Christians Gnostics And Philosophers In Late Antiquity
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Author : Mark Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Christians Gnostics And Philosophers In Late Antiquity written by Mark Edwards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Religion categories.
Gnosticism, Christianity and late antique philosophy are often studied separately; when studied together they are too often conflated. These articles set out to show that we misunderstand all three phenomena if we take either approach. We cannot interpret, or even identify, Christian Gnosticism without Platonic evidence; we may even discover that Gnosticism throws unexpected light on the Platonic imagination. At the same time, if we read writers like Origen simply as Christian Platonists, or bring Christians and philosophers together under the porous umbrella of "monotheism", we ignore fundamental features of both traditions. To grasp what made Christianity distinctive, we must look at the questions asked in the studies here, not merely what Christians appropriated but how it was appropriated. What did the pagan gods mean to a Christian poet of the fifth century? What did Paul quote when he thought he was quoting Greek poetry? What did Socrates mean to the Christians, and can we trust their memories when they appeal to lost fragments of the Presocratics? When pagans accuse the Christians of moral turpitude, do they know more or less about them than we do? What divides Augustine, the disenchanted Platonist, from his Neoplatonic contemporaries? And what God or gods await the Neoplatonist when he dies?
Apocalypse Of The Alien God
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Author : Dylan M. Burns
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-01-06
Apocalypse Of The Alien God written by Dylan M. Burns and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-06 with Religion categories.
In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred years later, a Christian emperor had ended the public teaching of subversive Platonic thought. When and how did this philosophical rupture occur? Dylan M. Burns argues that the fundamental break occurred in Rome, ca. 263, in the circle of the great mystic Plotinus, author of the Enneads. Groups of controversial Christian metaphysicians called Gnostics ("knowers") frequented his seminars, disputed his views, and then disappeared from the history of philosophy—until the 1945 discovery, at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of codices containing Gnostic literature, including versions of the books circulated by Plotinus's Christian opponents. Blending state-of-the-art Greek metaphysics and ecstatic Jewish mysticism, these texts describe techniques for entering celestial realms, participating in the angelic liturgy, confronting the transcendent God, and even becoming a divine being oneself. They also describe the revelation of an alien God to his elect, a race of "foreigners" under the protection of the patriarch Seth, whose interventions will ultimately culminate in the end of the world. Apocalypse of the Alien God proposes a radical interpretation of these long-lost apocalypses, placing them firmly in the context of Judeo-Christian authorship rather than ascribing them to a pagan offshoot of Gnosticism. According to Burns, this Sethian literature emerged along the fault lines between Judaism and Christianity, drew on traditions known to scholars from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Enochic texts, and ultimately catalyzed the rivalry of Platonism with Christianity. Plunging the reader into the culture wars and classrooms of the high Empire, Apocalypse of the Alien God offers the most concrete social and historical description available of any group of Gnostic Christians as it explores the intersections of ancient Judaism, Christianity, Hellenism, myth, and philosophy.
Philo Of Alexandria And The Timaeus Of Plato
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Author : Douwe (David) Runia
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-06-21
Philo Of Alexandria And The Timaeus Of Plato written by Douwe (David) Runia and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-21 with Philosophy categories.
Against The Gnostics
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Author : Plotinus
language : en
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Release Date : 2005-12
Against The Gnostics written by Plotinus and has been published by Kessinger Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12 with Philosophy categories.
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