{"_index":"sire","_type":"_doc","_id":"1438","_score":null,"_source":{"id":1438,"authors_free":[{"id":2288,"entry_id":1438,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":433,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Tempelis, Elias","free_first_name":"Elias","free_last_name":"Tempelis","norm_person":{"id":433,"first_name":"Elias","last_name":"Tempelis","full_name":"Tempelis, Elias","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"The School of Ammonius, Son of Hermias, on Knowledge of the Divine","main_title":{"title":"The School of Ammonius, Son of Hermias, on Knowledge of the Divine"},"abstract":"The thesis undertakes a reconstruction and critical assessment of\r\nthe theory of the Neoplatonic school of Ammonius, son of Hermias, on the\r\npresuppositions for the acquisition of knowledge of the divine and also\r\non the contents and the purpose of this knowledge.\r\nThe metaphysical position of the human soul between the\r\nintelligible and the sensible worlds allows it to know the intelligible\r\nworld and the divine, in particular, provided that the cognitive reasonprinciples\r\nin the human intellect are activated. The purpose of such\r\nknowledge is the assimilation to the divine and is achieved by means of\r\na personal struggle with the help of theoretical and practical\r\nphilosophy. The school of Ammonius compared its philosophical attempt at\r\nknowledge of the divine to previous similar methods.\r\nSince the One is unknowable, the members of this school believed\r\nthat man can know to some extent the Demiurge, who belongs to the second\r\nlevel of the intelligible world. The members of the school had different\r\nviews on affirmative and negative theology. The intelligible ante rem\r\nuniversals, the most fundamental of which is Substance, constitute the\r\ncognitive and creative reason-principles of the demiurgic Intellect. The\r\neternal activation of these principles result in the Demiurge's\r\nomniscience and the creation of the world, which is coetemal with the\r\nDemiurge. The Demiurge is incorporeal and exercises providence for what\r\nHe has created, but He is not omnipotent.\r\nThe theory of the school of Ammonius on knowledge of the divine is\r\nshown to be broadly consistent, though not necessarily convincing. [author's abstract]","btype":1,"date":"1994","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/80WPKaMpcwOqI0r","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":433,"full_name":"Tempelis, Elias","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":{"id":1438,"pubplace":"Athen","publisher":"Parnassos Literary Society","series":"","volume":"","edition_no":"","valid_from":null,"valid_until":null},"booksection":null,"article":null},"sort":["The School of Ammonius, Son of Hermias, on Knowledge of the Divine"]}