I demonstrate that Deleuze's identification of Aion as an empty form (of time) offers a fascinating model temporality prioritises variation. First, suggest time is supported by ancient Greek and Gnostic concepts the relation Chronos. From Plato, through Aristotle, to Plotinus concept undergoes substantive revision, in sense temporal measurement becomes removed from existent entities (cosmic or ...

We investigate the close relationships between the astronomical and scientific work of the famous great astronomer Johannes Kepler and the major scientific in general, and astronomical in particular, achievements that took place within the Hellenistic period and the Alexandrian epoch that followed immediately, that is from the Battle of Actium until the death of the scholar and polymath Hypatia...

as from his broad reading. She shows just how central to his thought were Cardano's neglected commentaries on the Hippocratic Corpus. Like every commentator since antiquity, he recast Hippocrates in his own image to justify his own ideas. Siraisi's consideration of Cardano's belated adoption of anatomical practices is also especially welcome, focusing on his rhetorical use of autopsy to vindica...

Silvia Jonas has written an important and lucid book about a ‘notoriously elusive’ topic ‘that has baffled philosophical minds for over two thousand years’ (p. 1). Yet the rise of new philosophical standards, focussed on analytical rigour, logical stringency, and scientific mindedness, has allowed the topic of ineffability, which, by definition, deals with what is beyond linguistic grasp, to be...

Yaratmanın mahiyetine dair ileri sürülen pek çok teorinin temel amacı, Tanrı-evren arasındaki ilişkiyi açıklamaya yöneliktir. Aristoteles (öl. M.Ö. 322) ile birlikte geliştirilen kozmolojinin Batlamyus 168) tarafından yapılan ilavelere dayanan modele göre, Tanrı evren ilişki, yaratmaya dayalı değil, bilakis Tanrı’nın evrene sınırlı bir etkisiyledir. Plotinus 270) bu kez, her şeyin Tanrı’dan sud...

Re-thinking Origen serves as the final instalment of a distinctive theological project. It follows two previous issues Modern Theology, Gregory Nyssa and Dionysius Areopagite, to complete trilogy.11 = Volume 18, Issue 4 (Oct 2002); Areopagite 24, 2008). The unity trilogy lies in its intellectual affinity twentieth-century project patristic ressourcement which involves thinking not only about ea...