Title | Compatible Alternatives: Middle Platonist Theology and the Xenophanes Reception |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1988 |
Published in | Knowledge of God in the Greco-Roman World |
Pages | 92-117 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Mansfeld, Jaap |
Editor(s) | Broek, Roelof van den , Baarda, Tjitze , Mansfeld, Jaap |
Translator(s) |
Students of Middle Platonism are familiar with the phenomenon that the accounts of the divine provided by various authors of the 2nd cent. CE strike one as incoherent.1 Qualifications according to the viae negationis, analogiae, and eminentiae, which to us seem incompatible to a degree, tend to coexist in a peaceful jumble. On the one hand, the essence or nature of God is described by means of a refusal to predicate any attributes whatsoever. Attributes with held in this way may be arranged in polar pairs. On the other hand, God’s exis tence as a supreme cause tends to be described in a positive way by means, e.g., of varieties of the argumentum ex gradibus entium. The theology of ch. 10 of Alkinoos’ Didaskalikos is a notorious instance of such a medley. [p. 92] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/DoIvETBqssMJox8 |
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Title | Compatible Alternatives: Middle Platonist Theology and the Xenophanes Reception |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1988 |
Published in | Knowledge of God in the Greco-Roman World |
Pages | 92-117 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Mansfeld, Jaap |
Editor(s) | Broek, Roelof van den , Baarda, Tjitze , Mansfeld, Jaap |
Translator(s) |
Students of Middle Platonism are familiar with the phenomenon that the accounts of the divine provided by various authors of the 2nd cent. CE strike one as incoherent.1 Qualifications according to the viae negationis, analogiae, and eminentiae, which to us seem incompatible to a degree, tend to coexist in a peaceful jumble. On the one hand, the essence or nature of God is described by means of a refusal to predicate any attributes whatsoever. Attributes with held in this way may be arranged in polar pairs. On the other hand, God’s exis tence as a supreme cause tends to be described in a positive way by means, e.g., of varieties of the argumentum ex gradibus entium. The theology of ch. 10 of Alkinoos’ Didaskalikos is a notorious instance of such a medley. [p. 92] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/DoIvETBqssMJox8 |
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