Platonism

but that should not detract from his Christian faith. Machiavelli’s combination of ancient religion and Christianity fit somewhat into what ancient theologians such as Justin Martyr, Origen and many others did. These men mostly focused on bringing Platonism into Christianity, but Machiavelli considered Aristotle more important. Black argued that Machiavelli was not the next Aristotle, however, this paper would not argue that either. Rather, it would juxtapose Machiavelli and ancient writings…

Humanism was a movement inspired by classic subjects known as humanities: rhetoric, grammar, poetry, history, and Latin and Greek. Humanists rediscovered ancient scientific texts and advancements and believed that the human mind’s capabilities were nearly infinite (Ramírez et al.). Humanism contrasted many Church teachings, including those regarding individuality and achievement (Ramírez et al.)(“Renaissance Humanism."). Renowned humanist, Desiderius Erasmus, influenced humanism from a religious…

Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. “Transcendentalist embodied a number of the new attitudes regarding man’s relationship to the…

I chose the second topic for my essay, and I am gone to discuss how Augustine’s conception of sin as it is developed in The Confessions, and also talk about how does the conception of sin derive from a dualistic conception of the universe, in which body and spirit, as well as the earthly and heavenly realms, are mainly differentiated. As the meaning in religious, sin always means the act that violates God’s will. And also sometimes sin could be viewed as a violation of the relationship between…

MARCOS, Ferdinand M. 2PHL1 St. Augustine’s reconciliation on free will, goodness and authentic life. The concept of free will, God, and evil were always been a big talk in any era of Philosophy, specifically about divinity and supreme being-God. So I decided to concentrate on St. Augustine’s implications on free will and his work on the problem of evil. We are tackling on scholasticism, so I chose St Augustine’s philosophy regarding on freewill. On the First thought,…

The quoted excerpt exhibits an access to Brahmanical knowledge and the endeavour of the late eighteenth century Orientalists to represent and translate for the West the Hindu myths and legends which would have an impact on Coleridge. Coleridge had begun making references to India and its mythologies comparatively late in his career as a poet. His approach to India had been that of a traditional Platonist, an attitude which experienced a renaissance through the work of these Orientalists in the…

This theory emphasises the distinguishing between the worlds, which is further emphasised in the ‘tripartite’ and ‘bipartite’ theory.The rational element is ‘aimed at wholly knowing the truth’ and it ‘is the source of our desire to understand the world, including our place in it and the best life for us, and to live in accordance with this understanding’ (Singpurwalla, 2010, 883). This is where the soul reflects the state as the rational element suggests a hierarchy, where philosophers are seen…

Life Hypatia was a famous mathematician in ancient greek. She was also a philosopher and an astronomer in Egypt, then played a part in the Byzantine Empire. In the school of Neoplatonic in Alexandria she was the smartest. She was the only daughter of Theon of Alexandria, who was also a famous mathematician. She was tutored by her father in Athens around the year 400. She was murdered by a mob of Christians, they were also referred to Parabolani after being accused of exacerbating a conflict…

Brianna Di Stefano The Renaissance was a massive movement in history. It was a huge contrasting period to that of the Middle Ages, which was a time where knowledge and art were diminishing. This new Renaissance period lasted throughout the 14th up until 17th century in Europe. Also known as the rebirth or renewal, it reintroduced a new way of looking at art and philosophy and even presented literature, religion, history and a scientific movement as well. The first movement in this time period…

Lucian of Samosata is well known to be the Supreme Ancient Greek Satirist and one of the most famous satirists in European history. He was born at Samosata (Samsat), a small town in the Adyman Province of Turkey on the Euphrates during the Ancient Roman Era. When Lucian was 14 years of age, he began working on his uncle’s statue shop as an apprentice sculptor. When he was on his early apprenticeship he accidentally broke a marble by striking it too hard with his chisel and his uncle gave him…