Foreshadowing Spinoza

2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 234-254
Author(s):  
Yoshi Kato
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Biblical Religion ◽  
The Universe

Abstract This paper examines two interpretations of a passage in Descartes’s text. Johannes Clauberg and Benedict Spinoza comment on the same paragraph in the Principles of Philosophy (1646). Descartes, in the paragraph, argues that the same amount of motion remains in the universe because of God’s immutable essence and operation. On the one hand, Clauberg embraces Descartes’s physics in general but modifies it to suit the theological tradition of the Reformed church, which held the official confession for where his professional career mattered. Spinoza, on the other hand, gets rid of all traces of the biblical religion from Descartes’s physics. While particular theological (or anti-theological) positions of these thinkers dictate their interpretations of Descartes’s text, their solutions are surprisingly similar.

scholarly journals UN REPER FUNDAMENTAL AL ESHATOLOGIEI: DISTINCȚIA DINTRE NECREAT ȘI CREAT, DAR NU ȘI INCOMPATIBILITATEA COMUNIUNII LOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Mădălin-Ștefan PETRE ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church ◽  
Second Coming

Orthodox eschatology is based, on the one hand, on the affirmation of the clear distinction between the uncreated nature of God and the created nature of His creatures, and, on the other hand, on the possibility of their union through divine Grace. Towards this eschatological union creation is called ontologically, through the divine reasons based on Reason-Christ, Who draws to Himself man and the universe, because He is at the same time Cause and Target, Alpha and Omega. The Church is working and preparing for the Feast of the Great Union, which will take place at the Second Coming of the Lord

scholarly journals 2012: Ideas Mayas Acerca De La Renovación Cí­clica Del Universo

Xihmai ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Alberto Morales Damián
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe

2012:  IDEAS  MAYAS  ACERCA  DE  LA  RENOVACIÓN CíCLICA DEL UNIVERSO. 2012:                MAYA‟S    CIVILIZATION     IDEAS   ABOUT    THE CYCLIC RENEWAL OF THE UNIVERSE.       Resumen El pensamiento maya con respecto a la astronomí­a y el calendario poseen una gran originalidad y corresponden a una forma de entender la realidad completamente  diferente  a  la  del  pensamiento  occidental.  Los  mayas conciben que el tiempo está sujeto a recurrencias cí­clicas (dí­a-noche, año solar, perí­odos de 52 años), cada una de las cuales supone la destrucción y renovación del cosmos. Por otra parte, las supuestas profecí­as mayas acerca de un evento astronómico el próximo 21 de diciembre de 2012, en realidad no son acordes a la cosmovisión maya prehispánica, coinciden sin embargo con temores milenaristas propios del pensamiento occidental que se agudizan en una época de crisis global.   Palabras Clave: Mayas, religión, astronomí­a, profecí­as del 2012.   Abstract Mayan  thought  in  respect  to  astronomy  and  the  calendar  have  a  great originality and correspond to a way of understanding a complete different reality to the one of the western thought. Mayan people conceive that time is subject to cycle recurrences (day-night, solar year, and periods of 52 years), each one supposes destruction and renovation of cosmos. On the other hand, the supposed Mayan prophecies about an astronomical event next December 21st  2012, do not in fact agree with the view of the world of the pre Hispanic Mayans, however they coincide with millennial fear proper of the western thought that worsen in this times of global crisis.   Key words: Mayans, religion, astronomy, 2012 prophecies.      

Real Modalities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Heil
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Causal Laws ◽  
The Universe

Sometimes we take ourselves to be saying some-thing about what really is possible (even if not actual), what is not possible, what is inevitable, what would or would not happen were certain conditions to obtain; we take ourselves to be saying something about how matters stand modally. When this is our aim, what features of the universe are responsible for the truth or falsity of what we say? I shall offer reasons for thinking that an ontology of interrelated powers or dispositionalities provides the resources requisite for an accounting of real modalities, truth makers for important modal truths. Consideration of these reasons will, in addition, disclose surprising connections between dispositionality, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, causation and causal laws as these are commonly understood in philosophy.

The Place of Mathematics in the Interpretation of the Universe

Philosophy ◽  
1933 ◽  
Vol 8 (29) ◽  
pp. 14-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Lindemann
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Euclidian Geometry ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe

Recent advances in physics render a reconsideration of the Place of Mathematics in the Interpretation of the Universe particularly timely. On the one hand, we have the introduction of non-euclidian geometry, which has given rise to much controversy informed or otherwise; on the other hand, we find mysterious forms of mathematics, invented to cope with the quantum difficulties, which so far have escaped metaphysical investigation or criticism. It would seem most desirable that these modes of interpreting reality should be examined from the broader philosophical point of view.

scholarly journals “Non vide mei di me chi vide il vero”: l’arte “verace” nel girone dei superbi come mise en abyme dell’arte dantesca nella Commedia

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Maria Maślanka-Soro
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

“Non vide mei di me chi vide il vero”: L’art “verace” in the circle of proud as a mise en abyme of Dante’s art in the Comedy The purpose of this study is to discuss the problem of meta-poetic themes in the Divine Comedy, focusing in particular on the relationship between God’s art and Dante’s art in the context of the impression caused by the sight of the rock reliefs in the cornice of the proud in the Purgatorio, where the poet, presenting and imitating the art of God, in fact shows the mastery of his own art. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the examples of humility and pride carved on the walls and the rock path – the perfect work of God-the Artist, vibrant with life and called by Dante visibile parlare – are, on the one hand, a mise en abyme of its macroscopic version, which is the Universe created by him, and, on the other hand, a mise en abyme of the universe narrated with the simile perfection by Dante.

The Appropriation Of Siva's Attributes By Devi;

1955 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-525
Author(s):  
A. A. bake
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Continuous Series ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The One ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Orthodox View

FROM the Western point of view the process by which the Goddess gradually established herself in the official Hindu Pantheon is of great interest. As it took place in historical times and in a culture which has known no violent breaks or radical changes of religion, it gives us a fairly continuous series of glimpses which illustrate the ways and means by which this prominence was reached. On the one hand we find accounts of the violent means—wars and massacres—employed by Devi in order to achieve recognition, as for instance in the Bengali folk-epics of Candi and Manasa-Devi. On the other hand, we find a series of philosophical-metaphysical speculations which increasingly stress the importance of the female principle in the workings of the Universe, and finally establish the Goddess in the very centre of things. Like her Lord Siva, Devi has many aspects, but—at least in the official and orthodox view—all these often conflicting aspects converge in the concept ‘The Goddess’, whatever their individual autonomy may have been or still is among the village worshippers. There is no doubt that, however young both Siva and the Goddess may be in official religion, they can claim a non-canonized existence prior perhaps to that of Brahma himself.

The Hittites Serve Their Gods

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Gary Beckman
Keyword(s):  
Good Health ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Detailed Picture

In the universe of the Hittites, humans had but a single duty—to serve their deities by providing them with sustenance, praise, and entertainment. This responsibility was organized by the king (T/Labarna), who functioned as both the overseer of his subjects and their representative before their divine masters. On the one hand, in return for their loyal support, the men and women of Hatti received from their gods the boons of agricultural and pastoral plenty, victory in battle, and long years and good health. On the other hand, negligence in regard to the pantheon could result in chastisement in the form of drought, plague, barrenness, military defeat, etc. The cuneiform archives recovered from the Hittite capital and increasingly from provincial cities were compiled precisely to facilitate the supervision by the monarch and his entourage of the performance of the duties of the human community. Most numerous among these texts are programs for the ceremonies of the regular state cult, whose contents provide a detailed picture of the attention required by and accorded to the gods and goddesses of the Hittites.

scholarly journals The Demiurge in Ioane Petritsi’s Commentary on Proclus’ Elements of Theology

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Lela Alexidze
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe

Ioane Petritsi, the twelfth century Georgian Christian Neoplatonist, wrote a commentary on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. In his work Petritsi goes far beyond the material contained in Proclus’ Elements, discussing the issues which are the subject of other treatises of ancient Greek philosophers. The aim of this paper is to analyze Petritsi’s point of view on the creator of the visible world, i.e. the demiurge of Plato’s Timaeus. In Petritsi’s commentary, on the one hand, the features of the supreme One and the demiurge as producers of the universe are in certain cases quasi identical, although on the other hand, the demiurge represents a lower level of intellect than the true being and in some cases is absent in places where a reader, following the context of Petritsi’s commentary, expects his presence.

Van 1619 na 1857 en 1986: 'n Lyn van Dordt na Belhar?

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Van der Watt
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Practical Ministry ◽  
The One

The fourth centenary celebration of the Synod of Dordrecht 1618/19, as well as the twenty fifth commemoration of the birth of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa—both having been celebrated in 2019—naturally leads to the question of the relation between the two historical events. In the historical development leading to the formation of separate churches in the “Dutch Reformed Family of Churches,” a distinct interpretation of election based on grace alone, as decided upon by the Synod of Dordrecht, played a major role. In this historical process of the formation of separate churches the 1857 synod decision by the Dutch Reformed Church has been a watershed moment; it not only brought a separation between people around the Lord’s table, but also a division between confession on the one hand and the practical ministry embodying the confession on the other hand. The 1857 decision eventually led to the necessity of the Belhar Confession in 1986. The Belhar Confession deliberately seeks a linkage to the central Reformed doctrine of “election by grace alone.” The Dutch Reformed Church’s inability and unwillingness to accept the Belhar Confession remain a tragic reality.

Erroneous Gazes: Lucretian Poetics in Catullus 64

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ábel Tamás
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe

ABSTRACTThis article argues for a ‘reciprocal intertextuality’ between Catullus 64 and Lucretius anticipating the poetic interplays of Augustan poets with theDe Rerum Natura. Catullus’ wedding guests (proto-readers), Ariadne (proto-Narcissus), and Aegeus (proto-Dido) are interpreted here aserrantesin the Lucretian sense: through their erroneous gazes presented in Poem 64, they all exemplify hownotto gaze at the structure of the universe. In the Lucretio-Catullan intertextual space — generated, as it seems, by the Catullan text — a reciprocal way of reading emerges: while, on the one hand, ‘Catullus’ uses ‘Lucretius’ to show that the aesthetic experience he offers is dependent upon an erroneous, unLucretian gaze/reading which deprives us of the external spectator position, ‘Lucretius’, on the other hand, uses ‘Catullan’ characters as deterrent examples in order to teach us hownotto submerge in ‘Catullus’ poetics of illusion’.

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