Sosipatra as a Teacher

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Heidi Marx
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Intellectual Stimulation ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Divine Inspiration

Upon losing her husband, Sosipatra moved to Pergamum and opened her own philosophy school. This chapter explores what her school might have been like from its structure, student body, and curriculum. For a late ancient philosophy school in the Platonist tradition, students lived near or with their teacher, following prescribed study of Aristotle and Plato, and discussing these works. Their main goal was to live with and learn from one teacher. Such teachers were often considered holy as well as gifted teachers who inspired devotion as much as desire for intellectual stimulation in their followers. Sosipatra certainly fits this description as her educational pedigree and virtuosity signal some sort of divine inspiration as the source of her knowledge and wisdom. Eunapius’s estimation of Sosipatra’s superiority as a teacher indicates that he wished his readers to think of her as a leading light in the Iamblichean lineage when it came to teaching on standard Platonic topics.

What is Going on in Your School?: An Honors Program

1955 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 371
Author(s):  
Norman Clark
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Intellectual Stimulation ◽  
Honors Program ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Lake Washington ◽  
Washington High School ◽  
Composition History ◽  
Public Reaction

A vigorous academic challenge extending beyond the usual high school curriculum is the purpose of an လhonors programဝ at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Washington. The program, now on an experimental basis, takes students of exceptional academic promise through mathematics, logic, science, composition, history, literature, and humanistic courses that provide intellectual stimulation not common in the public schools. The student body and faculty have given the program whole-hearted approval and public reaction so far bas been highly favorable.

Esotericism and the “Coded Word” in Mormonism

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Clyde Forsberg Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Popular Religion ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
New Religion

In the history of American popular religion, the Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, have undergone a series of paradigmatic shifts in order to join the Christian mainstream, abandoning such controversial core doctrines and institutions as polygamy and the political kingdom of God. Mormon historians have played an important role in this metamorphosis, employing a version (if not perversion) of the Church-Sect Dichotomy to change the past in order to control the future, arguing, in effect, that founder Joseph Smith Jr’s erstwhile magical beliefs and practices gave way to a more “mature” and bible-based self-understanding which is then said to best describe the religion that he founded in 1830. However, an “esoteric approach” as Faivre and Hanegraaff understand the term has much to offer the study of Mormonism as an old, new religion and the basis for a more even methodological playing field and new interpretation of Mormonism as equally magical (Masonic) and biblical (Evangelical) despite appearances. This article will focus on early Mormonism’s fascination with and employment of ciphers, or “the coded word,” essential to such foundation texts as the Book of Mormon and “Book of Abraham,” as well as the somewhat contradictory, albeit colonial understanding of African character and destiny in these two hermetic works of divine inspiration and social commentary in the Latter-day Saint canonical tradition.

La filosofía en la sociedad de la ciencia y la interpretación. Entrevista a Alejandro Vigo

Open Insight ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
David González Ginoccio ◽  
Mauricio Lecón Rosales
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt

Alejandro G. Vigo (Buenos Aires, 1958) es Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1988) y Doctor por la de Heidelberg (1994) con una tesis sobre la teoría de la acción aristotélica, escrita bajo la supervisión del Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wieland (cfr. Vigo, 1996). Ha impartido cursos de griego clásico, filosofía antigua, Kant y neokantismo, fenomenología y hermenéutica, teoría de la acción y ética. Ha estudiado y traducido a Platón y Aristóteles. Sobre ellos y autores como Heidegger, Suárez, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl y Gadamer ha publicado alrededor de cien artículos, voces en diccionarios, reseñas especializadas, notas en prensa, etc. Actualmente es profesor ordinario del departamento de filosofía de la Universidad de Navarra. Ha sido coeditor de Méthexis: International Journal for Ancient Philosophy y es Miembro Titular del Institut International de Philosophie, École Normal Supérieur – CNRS; participa en los consejos editoriales de revistas especializadas como Escritos de Filosofía, Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía,$QXDULR)LORVyÀ- co, Méthodus, Tópicos y Open Insight. En el pasado simposio de la Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Bamberg, 24-27.III.2011) recibió el Premio de Investigación Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, que reconoce anualmente la trayectoria científica de académicos de todas las áreas. El prof. Vigo realiza actualmente una estancia de investigación en la Universidad de Halle para estudiar la teoría de la acción de Kant.

The Enneads of Plotinus

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kalligas
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Christian Thought

This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, this commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, the volume provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.

PERAN INTELECTUAL STIMULATION VALUE BASED DRIVER BERBASIS ISLAMIC ENTERPRENEURSHIP MENUJU BUDAYA DAN KINERJA ORGANISASI ANGGOTA IKAPI DI PROPINSI JAWA TENGAH PENDEKATAN TRANSFORMASIONAL LEADERSHIP

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Dasmadi Dasmadi
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Stimulation

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis pengaruh competency dan intellectual stimulation value based driver terhadap organization performancedengan innovation sebagai variabel mediasi. Analisis data yang digunakan adalah dengan path analysis. Penelitian ini juga mendeskripsikan variabel penelitian competency, intellectual stimulation value based driver, innovation dan organization performancedengan menggunakan kuesioner. Penelitian ini berusaha untuk membuktikan bahwa innovation merupakan variabel yang memiliki pengaruh besar terhadap organization performancesehingga variabel innovation dapat berperan sebagai variabel mediasi.

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