Hi John, That lecture series they have is indeed somewhat encouraging. They offer the lectures for free to the public and I think it's underwritten by the...
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Edward Moore
proteus_08859
Aug 3, 2008 3:51 pm
... From: "Bryn Mawr Reviews" <bmr@...> To: "Bryn Mawr Reviews" <bmr-l@...> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 10:17 AM Subject: BMCR...
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Curt Steinmetz
enkiduq
Aug 5, 2008 9:48 pm
Is there evidence that Proclus' "On the Eternity of the World" was systematically suppressed? If I am not mistaken there is no real doubt among modern scholars...
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Harold Tarrant
Harold.Tarrant@...
Aug 5, 2008 10:54 pm
The problem of treating this one text as a candidate for suppression is that we do have, perhaps miraculously (?), quite a lot that one might easily suppose to...
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vaeringjar
Aug 6, 2008 6:39 pm
Reading II.9 with some care, finally, and I came across this distinction very early on in the essay (MacKenna's transl.): "Nor are we warranted in affirming a...
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vaeringjar
Aug 7, 2008 12:12 am
Just a followup to my last, since I finished reading II.9 - Armstrong in the Loeb has a long note on the passage in question, saying that it is likely not...
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vaeringjar
Aug 8, 2008 7:09 pm
Apologies for any cross posting - this message was sent to the Late Antiquity group yesterday. Among the subjects philosophy is I note not explicitly included,...
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Christoph Helmig
christophhelmig
Aug 10, 2008 8:26 pm
Dear all, I just wanted to draw your attention to some doctoral stipends that are currently advertised at the Humboldt Universität Berlin. There is at least...
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vaeringjar
Aug 15, 2008 9:47 pm
Apologies for cross posting, this from LT-ANTIQUITY today: The Eighth Biennial SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE " Shifting Cultural Frontiers in...
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Goya
goya532000
Aug 24, 2008 4:30 pm
Friends, A question directed primarily at the Arabists among us, but anyone is, of course, welcome to comment. Albert the Great often mentions the views of a...
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Edward Moore
proteus_08859
Aug 25, 2008 7:13 pm
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Tzvi Langermann
ytl@...
Aug 26, 2008 6:11 am
Late antique sources, including post-Galenic developments, did enter into the medical and philosophical literatures through a number of channels, especially...
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vaeringjar
Aug 28, 2008 7:36 pm
... as that ... in ... the ... contained ... called ... it ... Good heavens, why this argument? Plato clearly and unequivocally states in the 7th letter that...
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dhartjes
Aug 28, 2008 7:56 pm
I am curious if anyone has found the word "archetype" used by Plato. My study of this has led me to believe he has not, instead the use of the word "idea" and...
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Goya
goya532000
Aug 29, 2008 6:06 pm
... M.C. Well, for starters, not everyone is convinced that the 7th letter is authentic. Plato clearly and unequivocally ... M.C. : The word *dialektikê* does...
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pronoia12
Aug 29, 2008 7:39 pm
I think this question came up once before here. Plato does not use the word archetupon or archetupos. I don't know the earliest usage by it is a popular term...
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Giannis Stamatellos
gstamap
Aug 29, 2008 7:52 pm
Plotinus uses frequently both "archetupon" and "archetupos" in terms of "original";; ex. II.4.15.22; III.2.1.25; V.3.6.17 etc. In VI.9.11.45 it is used in...
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vaeringjar
Aug 31, 2008 1:24 am
could, ... dialogues. ... letter is ... I was under the impression - perhaps incorrect - that the 7th letter was accepted as geniune, unlike so many of the...
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vaeringjar
Aug 31, 2008 3:55 am
... Assuming ... Let me if I may add something - I don't presume to know exactly why Plato wrote the dialogues, and meant rather above that the sort of ...
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John Uebersax
john.uebersax
Sep 1, 2008 6:57 pm
Also Enneads 5.1.4: "That archetypal world is the true Golden Age, age of Kronos, who is the Intellectual-Principle as being the offspring or exuberance of...
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John Uebersax
john.uebersax
Sep 2, 2008 5:31 pm
Here is a question that follows up on the last thread. Two noteworthy attributes of Archetypes in Jungian psychology is that they are (1) autonomous, in the...
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epb223@...
jensav55
Sep 3, 2008 7:31 pm
My understanding is that Jungian archetypes are merely instinctual behavior patterns, and that therefore they are not volitional agents in the manner you...
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Bruce MacLennan
xmclennanx
Sep 4, 2008 3:02 pm
Hi Edward, ... I disagree with your interpretation with Jungian psychology. Jung stressed that archetypes and complexes can behave as autonomous ...
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jensav55
Sep 5, 2008 5:44 pm
I will defer to you on the matter of Jungian psychology, as it has been a long time since I was hands-on with the primary texts in that field. I do recall,...
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Bruce MacLennan
xmclennanx
Sep 6, 2008 8:50 pm
Hi Edward, ... True, and I admit to taking a particular position on the archetypes (rooted in Jung, but cultivated by Anthony Stevens, Meredith Sabini, and...
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jensav55
Sep 7, 2008 11:16 pm
... After I'd responded it did occur to me that the term "psyche" is uncommonly broad for Jungians. Even so, of course, it isn't much broader than it is for...
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jhpeditor
Sep 10, 2008 5:26 pm
Dear colleagues: I write in my role as Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy to draw the attention of scholars and students of ancient philosophy...
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John Uebersax
john.uebersax
Sep 23, 2008 6:38 pm
Here is a question: is there evidence of any kind that Platonists, Neoplatonists -- or, for that matter, other Greek philosophers after, say, the time of...
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Khem Caigan
khemcaigan
Sep 24, 2008 4:43 pm
... <SNIPS> Hi, John ~ The quick answer is, there is no evidence that is not heavily disputed. The very idea that the founders of Western Civilization might...
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Curt Steinmetz
enkiduq
Sep 24, 2008 4:50 pm
As you say some people consider it likely that at least some of the "Mystery Religions" (Eleusis in particular) used entheogens. Plato has Socrates make a very...
