The Medieval MindContent: New Religious Orientation - Christianity: the Formative years - Augustine: God the Creator - Augustine: the Created Universe - Medieval interval - Thomas: Metaphysics - Thomas: Psychology, ethics, Politics - End of the Middle ages. |
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... Neoplatonism . Unlike Mithraism and the other cults , Neoplatonism was a philo- sophical theory ; as such , it was concerned with epistemological and metaphysical problems to which the cults were indifferent . For instance , the ...
... Neoplatonism . Unlike Mithraism and the other cults , Neoplatonism was a philo- sophical theory ; as such , it was concerned with epistemological and metaphysical problems to which the cults were indifferent . For instance , the ...
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... Neoplatonism , then , was how to achieve this vision , how to reach that better world . Neoplatonism shared this orientation with the Eastern cults . Its interest , like theirs , was in man's relation , not to other men and to nature ...
... Neoplatonism , then , was how to achieve this vision , how to reach that better world . Neoplatonism shared this orientation with the Eastern cults . Its interest , like theirs , was in man's relation , not to other men and to nature ...
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... Neoplatonic metaphysics . In the first place , he found in Neoplatonism a notion of the deity as a creative force , or energy , rather than as a crudely anthropomorphic architect or a handi- craft worker . Coupled with what Ambrose ...
... Neoplatonic metaphysics . In the first place , he found in Neoplatonism a notion of the deity as a creative force , or energy , rather than as a crudely anthropomorphic architect or a handi- craft worker . Coupled with what Ambrose ...
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