Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought write by Kevin Corrigan. This book was released on 2013. Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together a selection of Kevin Corrigan's works published over the course of some 27 years. Its predominant theme is the encounter with otherness in ancient, medieval and modern thought and it ranges in scope from the Presocratics-through Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and the late ancient period, on the one hand, and early Christian thought, especially Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine and, much later, Aquinas, on the other. Among the key questions examined are the relation between faith and reason; the nature of creation and insight, being and existence; literature, philosophy and the invention of the novel; personal, human and divine identity; the problem of evil (particularly here in Dostoevsky's adaptation of a Platonic perspective); the character of ideas themselves; women saints in the early Church; love of God and love of neighbor; the development of Christian Trinitarian thinking; the strange notion of philosophy as prayer; and the mind/soul-body relation.
Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good
Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good write by Kevin Corrigan. This book was released on 2018-08-03. Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; that Aristotle developed his theology and physics primarily from Plato's Symposium (from the "Greater" and "Lesser Mysteries" of Diotima-Socrates' speech); and that the Beautiful and the Good are not coincident classes, but irreducible Forms, and the loving ascent of the Symposium must be interpreted in the light of the Republic, as the later tradition up to Ficino saw. Against the view that Platonism is an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary experience or opposed to loving individuals for their own sakes, this book argues that Plato dramatizes the ambiguities of ordinary experience, confronts the possibility of failure, and bequeaths erotic models for the loving of individuals to later thought. Finally, it examines the Platonic-Aristotelian heritage on the Divine to discover whether God can love us back, and situates the dramatic development of this legacy in Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, and Dionysius the Areopagite.
The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism
The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism write by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin. This book was released on 2014-07-25. The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy and thought, and explores its influence on philosophical and religious schools worldwide. Over thirty chapters are divided into seven clear parts: (Re)sources, instruction and interaction Methods and Styles of Exegesis Metaphysics and Metaphysical Perspectives Language, Knowledge, Soul, and Self Nature: Physics, Medicine and Biology Ethics, Political Theory and Aesthetics The legacy of Neoplatonism. The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is a major reference source for all students and scholars in Neoplatonism and ancient philosophy, as well as researchers in the philosophy of science, ethics, aesthetics and religion.
Neoplatonism and Christian Thought
Neoplatonism and Christian Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neoplatonism and Christian Thought write by Dominic J. O'Meara. This book was released on 1981-06-30. Neoplatonism and Christian Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, the relationships between two of the most vital currents in Western thought are examined by a group of nineteen internationally known specialists in a variety of disciplines—classics, patristics, philosophy, theology, history of ideas, and literature. The contributing scholars discuss Neoplatonic theories about God, creation, man, and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted, or rejected by major Christian thinkers of five periods: Patristic, Later Greek and Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern. Contributors include G.-H. Allard, A. Hilary Armstrong, Elizabeth Bieman, Linos Benakis, Henry Blumenthal, Mary T. Clark, Norris Clarke, John Dillon, Cornelio Fabro, John N. Findlay, Maurice de Gandillac, Edward P. Mahoney, Bernard McGinn, Dominic J. O'Meara, John J. O'Meara, Jean Pépin, Mary Carman Rose, Henri-Dominique Saffrey, Charles B. Schmitt, and Gérard Verbeke.
Neoplatonism and Early Christian Thought
Neoplatonism and Early Christian Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neoplatonism and Early Christian Thought write by Arthur Hilary Armstrong. This book was released on 1981. Neoplatonism and Early Christian Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The studies collected in this book are all concerned with aspects of the Platonic tradition, either in its own internal development in the Hellenistic age and the period of the Roman Empire, or with the influence of Platonism, in one or other of its forms, on other spiritual traditions, especially that of Christianity." [Book jacket].
