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Oracles --- Neoplatonism --- Néo-platonisme --- Porphyry, --- Translations into Italian --- Oracles. --- Neoplatonism. --- Néo-platonisme --- Translations into Italian.

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"Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, but principally among cultural, social and economic historians. This book shifts the focus to intellectual history, exploring the thoughts of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon (c.1355-1452). It argues that Plethon brought to their fulfilment latent tendencies among Byzantine humanists towards a distinctive anti-Christian and pagan outlook. His magnum opus, the pagan Nomoi, was meant to provide an alternative to and escape-route from the polarity of the Orthodoxy of Gregory Palamas and Thomism. It was also a groundbreaking reaction to the bankruptcy of a pre-existing humanist agenda and to aborted attempts at the secularisation of the State, whose cause Plethon had himself championed in his two utopian Memoranda. Inspired by Plato, Plethon's secular utopianism and paganism emerge as the two sides of a single coin. On another level, the book challenges anti-essentialist scholarship that views paganism and Christianity as social and cultural constructions"--

Neoplatonism --- Néo-platonisme --- Gemistus Plethon, George, --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Néo-platonisme --- Intellectual life. --- Gemistus Plethon, George, - 15th cent. --- Gemistus Plethon, George, - 15th cent. - Nomon syngraphes ta sozomena

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This selection of twenty-five essays by Andrew Smith is devoted to Neoplatonism and especially to Plotinus and Porphyry. It deals with Plotinus' development of the Platonic Forms, and includes a lengthy assessment of Porphyry's contribution to the Platonic tradition. The themes also embrace a number of issues that have become particularly prominent in the more recent growth of interest in these philosophers of late antiquity. For example, the importance of practical ethical activity is examined particularly in the case of Plotinus and it is argued from several perspectives that a theoretical basis for reconciling the life of contemplation with that of everyday living may be found in his metaphysics. This also involves his speculations on time and eternity as well as his observations about human consciousness. A closer examination of the role of religion, magic and myth in the life of the philosopher reveals a much richer and more nuanced appreciation of their importance than has been accorded them by an earlier generation of scholars. In particular the contribution of lamblichus is recognised as a profound attempt to account for divine activity in the world and the first attempt to propose a solution to the problems involved in presenting metaphysics of religious ritual.

Neoplatonism. --- Philosophy and religion --- Néo-platonisme --- Philosophie et religion --- History --- Histoire --- Plotinus. --- Porphyry, --- Iamblichus, --- Neoplatonism --- Plotinus --- Néoplatonisme --- Néo-platonisme. --- Histoire. --- Plotin, --- Porphyre, --- Jamblique, --- Plotin. --- Critique et interprétation --- Néoplatonisme. --- Porphyre --- Jamblique --- Critique et interprétation. --- Porphyry, - ca. 234-ca. 305. --- Philosophy [Ancient ] --- Néoplatonisme. --- Néo-platonisme. --- Critique et interprétation --- Critique et interprétation.

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Néo-platonisme --- Neoplatonism --- Platonists --- Platonism --- Philosophers --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Alexandrian school --- Church history --- Hellenism --- Philosophy --- Theosophy --- Plato. --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platon, --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Plato --- Platon --- Platoon --- Platonists. --- Neoplatonism. --- Platoniciens --- Платон --- プラトン