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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Platonism"”.
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A Defense of Arithmetical Platonism (Variations on a Theme by Kitcher)
In The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1984) Philip Kitcher develops an exciting and insightful picture of arithmetical reality by considering mathematical activities--not objects--as ontologically primitive. Yet, his account goes astray because of his nominalistic interpretation of the …
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Know Yourself and You Will Be Known: The Gospel of Thomas and Middle Platonism
… Thomas</em> is the Alexandrian School of Middle Platonism. This background contains an understanding of the divine, the secret nature of the teachings in the text, and the presence of daemons in the cosmos. In short, this is my attempt at supplying the hermeneutical key to the text or at least …
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The Letter of James and Middle Platonism: Tracing Early Christian Engagements with Greek Philosophy
This thesis situates the letter of James within the philosophical context of Greco-Roman antiquity, and argues that what are typically seen as Jewish “Wisdom themes” in the letter should instead be understood in terms of Greek philosophical discourse. Through comparative analysis, it shows that the …
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Moral divinity with a tincture of Christ?: an interpretation of the theology of Benjamin Whichcote, founder of Cambridge Platonism
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_165587229.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Axiomatization and Incompleteness in Arithmetic and Set Theory
… 3, by reconstructing a version of Gödel's platonism, called conceptual platonism. I then examine how such a position relates to various means of reducing set-theoretic incompleteness. In chapter 4 I argue that there is some prospect for this position of effecting a limited reduction in …
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The mystical theology of Peter Sterry : a study in neoplatonist Puritanism
… Yet his commitment to both Calvinism and Platonism lead to several tensions in his work, some of which are never entirely reconciled. Sterry's influence on the early development of Cambridge Platonism has been unappreciated, and yet it is said that he was one of the first to introduce …
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American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the "end of History"
… who is an intermediary between ancient Platonism and nineteenth-century American Transcendentalism. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is a Platonic text that provided a foundational inspiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and American Transcendentalism writ-large. Despite …
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… in the Timaeus, and Plato’s writing and Platonism at large. – Whitehead celebrates the Timaeus’ success in revealing the “forms” in the flux of cosmic process – but is a non-hierarchical Platonism with non-transcendent forms really a Platonism at all? Another theme is that just as there …
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Porphyry, And the Platonic-Aristotelian Tradition
… see the highest recurring moment of the unity of Platonism and Aristotelianism. And in the Addenda we present a discussion of some critical points which the latter work allegedly has in common with Proclus' version of Plato's dialogue.
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The Poetics of Emerson: An Emersonian Adaptation of Platonic Idealism
… of this study to show how the basic elements of Platonism prevail in the nature, functions, and method of Emerson’s ideal "Poet" and permanently exalt his literary standards.
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Shelley the Tragedian: Differing Modes of Catharsis in Prometheus Unbound and the Cenci
… Chapters 1 and 3 will also consider Shelley’s Platonism and how they might have influenced Shelley’s understanding of poetry, and catharsis itself. Using Shelley’s Defence of Poetry, Chapters 2 and 4 will examine Shelley's views on the moral and affective purposes of poetry. It will also …
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Reclaiming happiness of the city and the soul : Augustine's engagement with Cicero and Porphyry in the City of God.
… these two main eudaemonistic components in Platonism through the City of God.The dissertation also claims that Augustine identifies Rome with Nineveh in the Book of Jonah, and that such re-conceptualization reflects the evangelistic attitude toward his contemporary intellectuals.
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“War is God” and “Unguessed Kinships”: Blood Meridian and Cormac McCarthy’s “Border Tetralogy”
… a Deleuzian reversal of Holden’s inverted Platonism can open <em>Blood Meridian</em> to readings that avoid deterministic nihilism, creating space for a more affirmative metaphysical and moral vision of the novel and of McCarthy’s work in general.</p>
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The relationship of the son to the father in Justin Martyr
… also drew upon the concepts of Middle Platonism. We were inclined to associate a Subordinate Son with ideas of the Gnostics and could not find escape from a conclusion that an intimate relationship between the Son and the Father played an insignificant part in Redemption. The sacrifice …
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Geometrism: How geometrical fundamentalism came to shape our world
… from Pythagorean thought and Mathematical Platonism, have shaped our understanding and organization of the world in profound and often unrecognized and unexpected ways, ways that are often reductive, alienating, and ideologically charged. The spill of these abstract ideals back into the …
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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
… 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 discussions …
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The fantastic in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig and Joseph und seine Brüder
… without irony) and Schiller (as a synthesis of Platonism and Kantianism). Schiller’s interpretation of the contrast between a metaphysics of value on the one hand and a natural world with its own claims to respect on the other is advanced as the model for the ‘Geist/Natur’ distinction which lies …
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Ecclesiological Docetism : in early and medieval dissent and heresy in eastern and western Christianity
… its effects. It notes in particular the role of Platonism in theological interpretation, and considers the place of the establishment of the church in the legitimising of a Christological/ ecclesiological view. These themes and concepts combine to demonstrate the implications of dokesis within an …
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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 of …
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