Dear ListMembers, Hope my message finds you well - probably in holiday which I hope you are enjoying. Below are the titles of some books that landed recently...
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Dear ListMembers, I was wondering if anyone can help with two MSS. descriptions: (i.) I would be interested in finding out the full description of "Vaticanus...
I just wanted to bring to the attention of the group a book I have been working my way through recently, which might not normally appear on the Neoplatonist...
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Jul 25, 2003 2:08 pm
This was psoted on another list, but it may be (it should be) relevant to historians of neoplatonism: Within the Framework of the Deutsche...
Dear Dennis, I think that you mention a very interesting issue; especially with regard to the connection between the Neoplatonic One and modern Physics. In my...
I heard a lecture once along simialr lines, about how many members of the Israeli Physics community were keen on synthesizing the outer limits of physics with...
Kabbalah is NOT Neoplatonism. Your conclusion may be correct, but do not asume your understanding of Neoplatonism gives you a basis for understanding Kabbalah....
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Jul 27, 2003 5:48 am
Some brief comments: (1) Physics and Neoplatonism. Yes, mathematics is the language of physics. However, it is a fact that all of the major physicists of the...
Tzvi, Gershom Scholem was a scholar of the history of Kabbalah, he was not a kabbalist. Few traditional kabbalists would credit much to his understanding of...
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Jul 27, 2003 7:44 pm
Yehudah Ashlag was a twentieth-century kabbalist. Does that make him early? Perhaps for my kids, who were born in 2000. This is taking us off the topic of the...
I did not say he was early. As I recall I had an 'and' in the sentence. I mentioned Ashlag because he really was a kabbalist, and was a contemporary of Gershom...
Dear Giannis, Thanks for the kind remarks - Malin indeed is quoting Heraclitus, on the first page of the Introduction to his book, p.xi, and goes on to write...
Just an FYI - I received today the new edition of Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Symposium from France. It has the Latin text, French translation, and...
... This part of your post reminded me of another (thoroughly untested) thought that came to me recently - as anyone ever interpreted the second part of...
Dear Dennis, Firstly, with regard to the idea of plurality in Parmenides' poem, Plotinus criticizes the Eleatic at V.1.8.23-25 for saying, on the one hand,...
[1.] 'Necessity, Possibility and Power' series Institute of Classical Studies -convenors Dr. AD Sheppard and Prof. RW Sharples- - Monday 20 October 2003, 5.00...
Can anyone direct me to the most recent editions of the Arabic texts of the Theology of Aristotle and Liber de Causis, and who edited them? Thanks. Nima...
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Aug 30, 2003 9:10 pm
Both texts are available in A. Badawi's volume on neoplatonism (al-aflatuniyya al-muhdatha), along with some other items. There have been more recent studies,...
A new edition of the Arabic translation of Enn. IV 8, with Italian translation, extensive introduction and commentary, bibliography and a full Greco-Arabic...
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Aug 31, 2003 6:29 pm
... Thanks to Prof Langermann for mentioning my book. The arabic editions are, as noted, for the Theology (and the rest of the Arabic Plotinus except for a few...
... From: Edward Moore Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:32 AM An English translation of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to...
I hope this isn't too off-subject, but I was hoping someone could identify a Pythagorean passage quoted by Clement of Alexandria in his <Exhortation to the...
1) According to H.Thesleff, 'The Pythagorean Texts of the Hellenistic Period', p.186, this quote appears also in Ps.-Justin. Mart.Cohort. ad gentes 19, 2...
... <snip> ... Oh, goody! *I* finally get to contribute instead of just lurking! Take your pick of sources: Nicholas of Cusa (paraphrased?), Giordano Bruno...
You said, "Someone was misquoted or paraphrased or plagiarized by someone else." I wonder... Borges has a wonderful short essay on this theme called 'Pascal's ...
