|
|
|
Use this tool to learn about websites, specifically the one you just entered.
If you find some aspect of it inappropriate it is not our fault.
If you are the owner of this website: yes we are a real search engine, we do have a real web crawler called FyberSpider and you can block it if you feel the urge.
We are in the process of updating this tool. Until we are done just use our search results to check the inclusion status of your site.
Submit your site to major search engines within 48 hours.
Find out if your site has been cataloged by top search engines for only $8.99.
Below you will see site info taken directly from the URL you entered in real time. This is also known as our URL Breakdown tool and can be used independently of our site info tool.
Mystical Theology
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page.
"Western
Philosophy
Top
About course
Housekeeping
Schedule
Gallery
Themes
Stories
Online Readings
Wildman's
Weird Wild Web
Home
Links
Jokes
Other Courses
Mystical Theology and Philosophy
Contents
Plotinus
Pseudo-Dionysius
John Scotus Eriugena (including a remark on Eriugena's
name)
Nicholas Cusanus (nothing there as yet)
Teresa of Avila (containing an extensive Ciccarelli
biography)
Plotinus (205-270)
Background to Neoplatonism (200CE onwards)
The most important Neoplatonist was Plotinus (205-270), whose influence in Christian
theology has been extensive. The influence of Neoplatonism is clearly evident in Origen
(185-254) and Augustine (354-430).
Plotinus was a pagan Neoplatonist philosopher. He believed with Plato that we have to
know the world as it really is if we are to live truly good lives. So he was led to
meditate on the ultimate reality, as this was initially defined in the terms of Middle
Platonism, in a quest to understand how all that is could be thought of as unified, in
Parmenides’ sense.
Plotinus noted that even the Middle Platonists’ extension of Plato in terms of a
Supreme Mind and the Forms which are its thoughts involved a kind of duality; though they
were intimately related, since Forms are the expressions of Mind itself, a distinction
remains. He posited, therefore, a higher, the One above being from which all of the
plurality of Being emmanates, beginning with Mind and the Forms, and followed by
everything else in the hierachy of Being.
The One
For Plotinus, the One is beyond Being and Not-Being, and nothing can be said of it
literally (Plotinus sometimes calls it the Good without intending to attribute a property
to it). The universe is an overflow of the One into B"
....
read entire page
|
Links to Pages on the Same Domain Name
|
|
