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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Neo-Platonism."”.
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Time and Eternity: A Study of the ‘Accidental Temporalist’ View
… concepts influential in the tradition— e.g., Neo-Platonism, divine simplicity, and the emerging importance of the metaphysical nature of time—as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional views. This reveals the motivation for accidental temporalism. Having thus set the stage for …
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The Contemplation of the Transcendent Heart: Tracing the ἡγεμονικόν from the Stoics to Origen
… stands at the watershed between ‘middle’ and ‘neo’ Platonism, provides us with a distinctive perspective on how late antique thinkers were able to recraft materialist terms within a transcendent metaphysic. Origen’s discussions of the governing faculty frequently emerge out of biblical …
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The nature of Christian mysticism in the thought of Baron von Huegell and George Tyrrell
… which involved a critique of Buddhism, neo-Platonism and pantheism, rested on a worldaffirming attitude to creation, a balance between divine transcendence and immanence and the articulation of a legitimate panentleism. It also involved a positive acceptance of the bodily-spiritual unity …
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The conversion and therapy of desire in Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues.
… for the healing of desire. Among these only the neo-Platonic treatment for desire requires redirecting desire towards an immaterial world. Although Augustine agrees with the neo-Platonists on the need to redirect our desires to an immaterial world, he does not adopt their therapy for desire. …
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Negative capability and the poetry of John Keats
… of Wordsworth’s later poetry, the neo-Platonism of Shelley or the dialectical synthesis of Blake. Instead, Keats had what he cryptically called Negative Capability, a half-articulated criticism of life and poetry which sacrificed the comforts of philosophical order so as to provide …