neoplatonic

Especially since under neoplatonic thought lots of things are considered more real because they lack physical existence.

Up to the part about faith, what the post presented seems very close to Neoplatonic ideas.

In neoplatonic tradition this is countered with practicing the anagogic ascent, in stoic traditions with the view from above practices.

Byzantine scholars at the Neoplatonic Academy fled to Persia after it was closed by Justinian.

Their library has so many fascinating esoteric works—on alchemy, spiritual practices, Neoplatonic philosophy, natural magic, etc.

In particularly the Neoplatonic idea of the Great Chain of Being.

While you prefer to work in a Neoplatonic world of ideas, I prefer empirical facts and convictions that all models are approximations.

>Aquinas reconciled some Aristotelian and Neoplatonic views with the Catholic Church I wonder if you might be mistaking Aquinas for Augustine?

I’ve been thinking about it lately, and in a world that many believe is filled with intelligence and consciousness at different levels, it might make sense to dust off our Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy.

If we were really ultimately determined by our appetites, as the Neoplatonic determinists would have it, then we can construct a scenario where the perfectly determined ass would end up starving to death when surrounded by the foods it most craved.

As a result, now Christian orthodoxy is saddled with neoplatonic philosophical vestigial baggage in the term "consubstantial", which means Christians are wedded to and forced to defend a hard metaphysical realism.

For instance the entire notion of the Trinity is at its root a straightforward application of Neoplatonic philosophy, where the "One" Godhead exists as three lower "hypostases" (Greek) or "persons" (Latin).

“Gnosis”, is this rooted in Gnostic or neoplatonic philosophy?

He published “De Mysteriis” in 1497, which paraphrases neoplatonic understanding of Gods, Demons, Heroes and Soul — arguing that gods and demons don’t feel — indeed, not even the soul (“the lowest of the divines”) has any part that feels.

The whole train of thought of Pseudo-Dionysius is Neoplatonic.

Also, not to be overly Neoplatonic, but is it not the case that C is basically what a smart person would come up with as a way to write portable-but-not-very-abstracted imperative code on a Von Neumann machine?

Boethius, writing in prison while awaiting execution, blends Stoic, Neoplatonic, and Christian ideas to address timeless questions of fate, fortune, happiness, and virtue.