Carl Séan O'Brien

The Demiurge in Ancient Thought

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines religious and 'scientific'/philosophical accounts of world-generation as represented by the figure of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781107428096
• ISBN-10: 1107428092
• Artikelnr.: 53447775

Autorenporträt

Carl Séan O'Brien is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg and Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition at Trinity College Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Demiurgy and other approaches to world-generation
2. Plato's Timaeus, the original concept of the Demiurge and the exegesis of the dialogue
3. Logos into Demiurge: Philo of Alexandria as witness to developments in contemporary Platonism
4. Plutarch and the Demiurge of Egyptian mythology
5. A simplified understanding of God: Maximus of Tyre
6. Numenius and his doctrine of three Gods
7. On the fringes of philosophy: speculations in Hermetism
8. The ignorant Demiurge: Valentinus and the Gnostics
9. Origen, the Demiurge and Christian theology
10. Plotinus and the demise of the Demiurge
11. Concluding remarks.