Conversations Platonic and Neoplatonic: Intellect, Soul, and Nature
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The World-Soul in the Platonic cosmology.
In each of Plato's major cosmological works, the Timaeus , the Statesman myth and the Philebus , he asserts that the body of the whole universe is alive and possesses a single WorldSoul which extends throughout it. I wish to offer a new interpretation of the role of the World-Soul which gives the World-Soul a special function in the economy of the Platonic cosmology and which explains why Plato...
متن کاملAquinas on the Materiality of the Human Soul and the Immateriality of the Human Intellect
Contemporary philosophers tend to become interested in Aquinas’s conception of the mind when they perceive it as possibly offering a promising alternative between “the Scylla of materialism and the Charybdis of dualism”. They tend to become disillusioned, however, when they run into the problem of the apparent inconsistency in Aquinas’s conception. Furthermore, if they manage somehow to get ove...
متن کاملPhysique and Intellect
Physique and Intellect. By Donald G. Paterson. New York: The Century Co. (Century Psychology Series). 1930. There have been during the past few decades many investigations directed primarily toward the determination of the relation between those two factors which the author of this book generalizes under the names physique and intellect. The theoretical and practical importance of the results o...
متن کاملPlatonic Surfaces
If SO is a Riemann surface with a complete metric of finite area and constant curvature −1, let SC denote the conformal compactification of SO. We show that, under the assumption that the cusps of SO are large, there is a close relationship between the hyperbolic metrics on SO and SC . We use this relationship to show that lim infk→∞ λ1(Pk) ≥ 5/36, where the Platonic surface Pk is the conformal...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1872-5082,1872-5473
DOI: 10.1163/187254711x591090