The scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias, and a nameless person, who are introduced in the Timaeus. BOOK I I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with...
Suwen 77, for instance, provides evidence of an explicit indebtedness on the part of the physician, who cites the central method of using judgment (lun cai 論裁) “based on laws (fa) and rules (ze 則),” which is in turn identified as “[t]he art of the sages” (Suwen 77, cited...
and drives the man mad; or gives a certain violent bias which taints his judgment. In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled, in spite of the unquestionable increase of mental power. Must the highest good drag after it a quality which neutralizes and discredits...
Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold. Their knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars, or some limited judgment of color or form, which is exercised for amusement or for ...
awesome day the prophets wrote about in which men will be reconciled to God the Father through Christ the Son so that the day of the Final Judgment when God will "smite the earth" will be put off until a later time when the "harvest of souls" has come at the end of the Messianic ...
The general resurrection of the dead and the last judgment will take place then, assuring him of his place among the saved and the righteous. The Jews adopted the two principles of good and evil and they were taken over by Christianity. When Blake speaks of the marriage of Heaven and Hell...
Meietti republished in 1594 in Venice some copies of the work bearing a fake frontispiece dated 1593 (that is, before the negative judgment passed by the Church), which are sometimes erroneously indicated as stemming from the work’s second edition (whereas, in fact, no such edition appeared)...
In fact, two centuries before Murley, rhetorician John Lawson credited Plato’s poetic style in his own poem, “The Judgment of Plato”. According to Lawson, Plato’s oratory is a rare combination of both philosophical brilliance and poetic beauty (Lawson 1759 & Kennedy 1980, p. 279). In ...
Harnack lauded Gore's judgment and agreed: "unless all signs deceive, Augustine received from Victorinus the impulse which led him to assimilate Paul's type of religious thought" ([13], p. 34). Harnack went so far as to call Victorinus an "Augustine before Augustine" because of the sola-...
42–43). The vessel of the heart is the mirror of theophanies: “He who contemplates becomes like the object of his contemplation”, says Plato in Timaeus (90d). Thus, according to the Neo-Platonist Ibn al-ʿArabī, it is God who, by taking man by his own gaze, becomes the “...