... Thanks, but I probably should apologize for inflicting such an overtly personal political rant here at this forum, whose focus obviously has nothing to do...
Thanks, Melanie, but who is Heath quoting? Any idea? Â BTW, I just returned from up your way. We had a month-long big family get together in upstate New York...
Dennis  In Australia, most of us look in horror and the US and other political systems, especially the way you vote in the States. The first past the post...
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Jan Opsomer
jan.opsomer@...
Oct 2, 2010 12:56 pm
The quote is from the Anonymous Prolegomena to the philosophy of Plato (whose author was previously believed to be Olympiodorus), IX, 21.27-32. Kind regards, ...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Oct 3, 2010 10:23 pm
... Dear John, I read your blog with great interest and pleasure. I wish that I was in a position to vote for you. Perhaps you might be interested in an ...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Oct 3, 2010 10:25 pm
... Dear Mike, I am most interested in your comments on McG¹s book. Your evaluation of his philosophical capacities seems to me spot-on. He is an impressive...
Dear Prof. Dillon, I am honored that you would even glance at something I wrote. I would indeed be most interested in reading the address you gave in June....
Sub Rosa: While not as yet fully up to speed on the subject format of this list; I would like to offer a small comment. When visiting this list on yahoo, the...
Dear Harold, I am pleased to say that there is a review of Francoise Hudry's book in the forthcoming issue of The International Journal of the Platonic...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Oct 5, 2010 7:51 am
... Quite right, John! It is the talk to the Prometheus conference. Burt I thought I had sent it to you as an attachment. There is also an earlier pamphlet,...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Oct 5, 2010 7:54 am
... Plotinus felt that the configurations of the stars signified the course of events on earth, but it did not cause them. He is quite firm on that. See Ennead...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Oct 5, 2010 8:18 am
... Just been reading the review. Most interesting ‹ sounded implausible at first, then less so. Seems a very Œmediaeval¹ sort of thing to write, though....
________________________________ From: neoplatonism@yahoogroups.com [neoplatonism@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Dillon [jmdillon@...] By the way,...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Oct 5, 2010 9:55 am
... Many thanks for that, Stephen. Nicolas of Cusa, eh? I wonder if we can't push it back further! John...
... This has been bugging my non-professorial brain all AM, so far where it comes from is plainly one thing while attribution is another. It is very widely...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Oct 5, 2010 12:37 pm
... Well, I'm pretty sure it's not Empedocles as such, but it's also familiar to me from somewhere. It bothers me. JMD...
Dear John, The genealogy of the sentence: Deus est sphaera cujus centrum ubique circumferentia nusquam (by the way also motto of our "Center for Metaphysics...
Dear John, Giordano Bruno uses this image to describe how the innumerable worlds are all divine centres of the unbounded universe. F. Yates in Giordano Bruno...
Dear John You have sent me on a wide-ranging tour of the internet this morning. I agree with Giannis. Although the quote “attributed variously to St....
Dear Frater Tom, The inherent presence of astrological symbolism in the philosophy of Plotinus was broadly outlined by Anthony Damiani (1922-1984) --...
I just acquired from an old graduate school friend his electronic version of his unpublished dissertation on Numenius. It is a careful and clear translation...
Query List: I have been working through testing a hypothesis, as it were, on what the intended cognitive effect of apophatic discourse is meant to be. In...
Dear Frater Tom & David, Thank you for recommending this text, and for the query regarding Astrology on the Neoplatonism listserv. Perhaps Astrology should...
Dear Thomas, I wonder if you might find Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, *The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities* useful....
As this thread has strayed from the original topic (psychology and cultural dynamics), may I suggest that, if interest in this other direction continues, it...
I can have it published on our web ring. There will be no monetary gain,and no blue ribbons, but it will be placed for all the world to see. Frater Tom F.R.C. ...
Plotinus felt that the configurations of the stars signified the course of events on earth, but it did not cause them. He is quite firm on that. See Ennead II...
