... Thanks, Christoph - I guess at least for me you just pointed out (yet another) Bildungsloch, as I had not been aware of his work. A couple of his editions...
Nashville has the parthenon. Athena smiles down on classical philosophers (before Descartes) although she seems to cause Heideggerians to grumble in low voices...
Has anyone worked with the Metaphysica of Tommaso Campanella? I am curious mostly about the summary he is supposed to give in that work of Iamblichus on...
Just to show how things go, last Friday I too was searching for information on Campanella and discovered the nice Stanford article. There are a few interesting...
Following Dennis' lead, here are some other recently added or revised articles in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that might interest group members: Mulla...
On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:37 PM, vaeringjar wrote: Thanks to Dennis for the Campanella sonnet. While we're at it, here's another Neoplatonically-flavored text:...
... Well, if I had to give an answer I would suggest that it's Taoist, because of the dark and light mountain and waters, and because of the mention of teh Way...
... Nice that there is one on Pico - thanks for pointing all these out. The entry on Numenius by George Karamanolis is most rewarding indeed. I am still going...
This may be a bit of an odd question to raise, but it arises more or less from a little online research I did digging into post-Renaissance philosophy using...
Dennis, At least here (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) we have two different departments: Classic Philology and Classic Philosophy (Divided into Ancient...
... It likely isn't the correct identification, but the passage reminded me of "A Subtle Allegory" by the 17th century alchemist/Rosicrucian Michael Maier: ...
The new edition of Campanella that I just managed to get hold of is actually an edition of the original Latin and a modern Italian translation of several...
... M.C. no, I wouldn't be (quite) that perverse. It's from the 4th chapter of the Zhuang Zi (AKA Chuan Tzu), the Chinese Taoist philosopher of the 4th cent....
Dear Friends and Neoplatonism group members, This might be if interest to some here as it contains a great deal of Greek, Roman and Persian material. As well...
L.S. Newsletter 12 is available via the Pythagoras Foundation website: http://www.stichting-pythagoras.nl/English/index.htm Click Newsletter. Contents:...
Hi all, I'm new to this group, and I'm sure this topic has probably been covered, but searching through backposts I couldn't find the answer to certain...
*** robnen@... wrote: With regard to matter being "evil" because it is furthest from the one or is a privation of the one, if The One is infinite, how can...
... I think we ought to be careful here not to conflate the views of Plotinus and Proclus. In his De malorum subsistenia (229, 28-231,20), takes Plotinus to...
Very nice explanation, if I may say so, and thanks for the reference to the Philebus. ... Which I think sums up quite nicely Parmenides' real position, though...
... Is that in one of the Aphormai? I guess I ought to know, but I don't. The notion that the One could have any spatial presence, even stated as everywhere,...
Hi Tim, Thanks to you and everyone else who responded to my original query. It seems that in speaking of the One, what's going on is that it's being defined as...
*** Michael Chase wrote: I think we ought to be careful here not to conflate the views of Plotinus and Proclus. In his De malorum subsistenia (229, 28-231,20),...
*** robnen@... wrote: Whereas I thought that the One, being the Unity, The Real, the Totality, does not allow for nothingness outside of itself. *** ...
