Studies In Later Greek Philosophy And Gnosticism
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Studies In Later Greek Philosophy And Gnosticism
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Author : Jaap Mansfeld
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1989
Studies In Later Greek Philosophy And Gnosticism written by Jaap Mansfeld and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
It is a curious fact that many of the sources for the Presocratic and Stoic philosophers are early Christian authors; similarly, one can even find an echo of Parmenides in a Gnostic treatise from Nag Hammadi. Such writers were often dependent for their knowledge on a whole chain of previous interpretations and traditions, and it is these with which Professor Mansfeld is here largely concerned. He has tried to discover what in an earlier writer - Plato, and Aristotle, of course, as well as the Early Greeks - was of interest to a later one, notably the Middle Platonists. These articles demonstrate the value of such an approach, showing how a familiarity with the later history of an idea, say in a Gnostic text, can contribute to the understanding of the idea itself; or how the study of the selection of ideas used by Philo, for instance, not only sheds light on his own projects, but also helps explain why some motifs survived and not others, and why philosophical thought took the directions it did.
Studies In The Historiography Of Greek Philosophy
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Author : Jaap Mansfeld
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Studies In The Historiography Of Greek Philosophy written by Jaap Mansfeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Historiography categories.
Gnosticism Platonism And The Late Ancient World
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Author : Kevin Corrigan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-07-25
Gnosticism Platonism And The Late Ancient World written by Kevin Corrigan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-25 with Religion categories.
This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner’s work has been of profound importance for the study of the interaction between Greek philosophy and Gnosticism in late antiquity. This volume contains essays by international scholars on a broad range of topics that deal with Sethian, Valentinian and other early Christian thought, as well as with Platonism and Neoplatonism, and offer a variety of perspectives spanning intellectual history, Greek and Coptic philology, and the study of religions.
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?
Ennead Ii 9
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Author : Plotinus
language : en
Publisher: Enneads of Plotinus
Release Date : 2017
Ennead Ii 9 written by Plotinus and has been published by Enneads of Plotinus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Philosophy categories.
How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality--it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul's creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image. Against the Gnostics is a polemical text. It aims to show the superiority of Plotinus' philosophy over that of his Gnostic rivals, and poses unique challenges: Plotinus nowhere identifies his opponents by name, he does not set out their doctrines in any great detail, and his arguments are frequently elliptical. The detailed commentary provides a guide through these difficulties, making Plotinus' meandering train of thought in this important treatise accessible to the reader.
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.
Studies In Gnosticism And In The Philosophy Of Religion
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Author : Gerald Hanratty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Studies In Gnosticism And In The Philosophy Of Religion written by Gerald Hanratty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Philosophy categories.
The concluding essay of the book gives an account of the critical reflections of Karl Jaspers on what he judged to be the obscure, seductive and, in the final analysis, gnostic speculation of Martin Heidegger.
Studies In European Philosophy
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Author : James Lindsay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Studies In European Philosophy written by James Lindsay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Philosophy categories.
Hellenization Revisited
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Author : Institute for Christian Studies
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 1994
Hellenization Revisited written by Institute for Christian Studies and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
This volume focuses on the role of Judaism, particularly that of Philo, and of Gnosticism, as two important forces shaping the response of early Christianity to the Hellenistic Greco-Roman culture of its time. The sections which examine Hellenistic Judaism investigate themes from Greek philosophy, like 'reason controlling the passions, ' which are also crucial in shaping Philo's perception of the feminine. The manner in which Jewish authors of this period attempt to synthesize Old Testament with Greek philosophical themes like creation/cosmology receives specific treatment. Essays dealing with Gnosticism re-examine themes from Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle in Gnostic documents, but also look at the role of Hellenistic Judaism with its interests in Sophia. Co-published with the Institute for Christian Studies
The Early Christian Apologists And Greek Philosophy
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Author : Hamilton Baird Timothy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Early Christian Apologists And Greek Philosophy written by Hamilton Baird Timothy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Gnosticism categories.
An abridgement and revision of the author's thesis, University of Edinburgh. Includes bibliographical references.