Divination and theurgy in neoplatonism, Addey, Crystal
Автор: Nikulin N Название: Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity ISBN: 0190662360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190662363 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity: Plotinus, who establishes many of the central themes for later debate and establishes strategies of argument and interpretation, and Proclus, who develops a grand philosophical synthesis and provides original insights into a number of important problems regarding being and thinking, matter and evil.
Автор: Driediger-Murphy Lindsay G Название: Ancient Divination and Experience ISBN: 0198844549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198844549 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did people in the ancient world experience their attempts to communicate with divine powers? This volume seeks to re-examine divination in ancient Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, and Chinese cultures and to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice.
Автор: Andrew R. Dyck Название: A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione II ISBN: 0472074571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472074570 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10811.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Offers the first commentary on Cicero`s De Divinatione II in nearly a century. This commentary aims to equip students and scholars of Latin with the kinds of historical and philosophical background and linguistic and stylistic information needed to understand and appreciate Cicero`s text on Roman religion and divination.
Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination--the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity saw these readings as signs from the gods while modern scholars have treated such beliefs as primitive superstitions. In this book, Peter Struck reveals instead that such phenomena provoked an entirely different accounting from the ancient philosophers. These philosophers produced subtle studies into what was an odd but observable fact--that humans could sometimes have uncanny insights--and their work signifies an early chapter in the cognitive history of intuition.
Examining the writings of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Neoplatonists, Struck demonstrates that they all observed how, setting aside the charlatans and swindlers, some people had premonitions defying the typical bounds of rationality. Given the wide differences among these ancient thinkers, Struck notes that they converged on seeing this surplus insight as an artifact of human nature, projections produced under specific conditions by our physiology. For the philosophers, such unexplained insights invited a speculative search for an alternative and more naturalistic system of cognition.
Recovering a lost piece of an ancient tradition, Divination and Human Nature illustrates how philosophers of the classical era interpreted the phenomena of divination as a practice closer to intuition and instinct than magic.
Автор: Andrew R. Dyck Название: A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione II ISBN: 0472054570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472054572 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4158.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Offers the first commentary on Cicero`s De Divinatione II in nearly a century. This commentary equips students and scholars with the kinds of historical and philosophical background and linguistic and stylistic information needed to understand and appreciate Cicero`s text on Roman religion and divination.
Автор: Wilberding James Название: Forms, Souls and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction ISBN: 1138955272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138955271 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo's formation? How and to what extent are Platonic Forms involved? In what sense is a fetus 'alive, ' and when does it become a human being? Where does the embryo's soul come from, and how is it connected to its body? This is the first full-length study in English of this fascinating subject, and is a must-read for anyone interested in Neoplatonism or the history of medicine and embryology.
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