Hi ~ I've run across the following statement on a website concerning ancient medical knowledge: 'Iamblichus repeats the statement of Plato that the study of...
Hi Leonard, ... Probably the Life of Pythagoras. This, found online, agrees with what you read: "In his Life of Pythagoras, Iamblichus repeats the statement of...
Dear Leonard, You could also see Iamblichus' Protreptikos, 4, p.50, 14-15 (in the Bude edition), where wisdom is considered "the eye of the intellective things...
... the pineal gland in ... Somehow I made it this far in life without ever having the slightest notion of even where the pineal gland is, and now thanks to...
... Yes. Not mentioned is looking to the left and the right, which each also seem correlated with specific mental operations. ... Concerning Plato's reference...
... The wikipedia article "Pineal Gland" is pretty informative: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland> Bruce [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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John Dilon
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May 11, 2008 12:28 pm
... I imagine in the introduction to his commentary on Nicomachus, but one would need to check. JMD [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dear All, I would like to draw your attention on a paper published by Bruno Marchal "A Purely Arithmetical, yet Empirically Falsifiable, Interpretation of...
... three eyes: one with ... another at divine things. ... forehead."' ... (but both likely ... written perhaps by Elias or ... [Plato] dreamt that he had ... ...
... dualism 'Platonism'. ... Well, I was wondering along those lines myself, but Descartes is hardly someone with whom I have much acquaintance beyond the...
Actually, tuataras, while related to lizards, are just as closely related to snakes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara and especially, with regard to the...
I just wanted to throw this out to all, as I have been reading a bit again (after many years) on the Mithraic religion, and it occurred to me that Mithras gets...
Perhaps a bit of a silly question, but still: of all the lost Neoplatonic works, or any work of ancient philosophy for that matter, would you like to have...
I think you're probably right Mithraism was in serious decline by the time of Proclus and that is most likely the explanation for his silence. Still, you might...
... I meant to add regarding Proclus' Commentary on the Chaldaean Oracles that even more of a value add would likely be the retrieval of at least a working...
... the time ... Still, ... about ... speculation onto ... Alten ... trans. R. ... Gordon's ... Genesis," * ... Roman ... A quick look into Turcan actually...
Thanks to all for your very generous and valuable responses! I'm intrigued by the question of how various Platonists understood the ontological status of this...
Dear Leonard, This is an interesting topic. You could check Proclus, In Remp. II, 241.19 ff. about the myth of Er and how he and his companions can see and...
... Senses ... look ... attention: "the ... sets ... of ... the ... or ... Does that famous Greek concept of like "sensing" like come into play here? I haven't...
Dear Sebastian ~ Thanks for your note. Regarding spritual hearing and the 'ear of the soul', I don't know of an explicit reference to the latter. But (you may...
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John Dilon
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May 17, 2008 9:16 am
... Well, I would certainly like to have Damascius¹ Life of Isidore / Philosophic History in full, but not for any very serious philosophical reason! JMD ...
Here is Part 3, covering the Renaissance (or, roughly 1350-1650) to a proposed list of Christian Platonists and Neoplatonists. Comments and suggestions are...
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John Dilon
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May 17, 2008 9:55 am
... That is a nice passage from the De Mysteriis, and deserves thinking about. Actually, even Plotinus envisages spiritual senses, in Enn. VI 7, since he feels...
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John Dilon
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May 17, 2008 10:05 am
... Dominic O¹Mears has a good paper on ŒHearing the Music of the Spheres¹ in A Platonic Pythagoras, edd. M. Bonazzi et al., Brepols 2007. JMD [Non-text...
