23 February 2023: Here is a precious and very telling fragment of the concluding part of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s lost work Hortensius, the work which, according to St. Augustine of Hippo, first kindled in him, at the age of 19, the Love of Wisdom, i.e. True Philosophy (Conf. III.4.7–8), and of which St. Augustine preserved…
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The misconstrual of Plato’s Republic, that St. Augustine quotes Socrates, and other discoveries
Below are some examples of what my thesis achieves in terms of research and discoveries: 1. St. Augustine quotes directly from Plato’s Republic, and a close comparison of St. Augustine with Plato reveal that the modern category of Neoplatonism is unnecessary to explain the thought of the former. I disprove the widespread notion that the…
A Brief Critique of Religious Empiricism, Logical Positivism, Materialistic Monism and the Anti-Supernaturalism of “N. T. Wright”
Undertaken with the Aid of the Theologia Germanica and Sir A. J. Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic. Or: Countering the Attempt to Entrap the Human Mind in a Verbal Matrix This paper owes its origin to a three-day “home exam” I sat for in November 2018, as part of the master’s program in theology I…
Visions of the Suprarational: A Study of the Concept of Nous in the Works of Plato and St. Augustine of Hippo
My recently completed master’s thesis, which one could say is the culmination of more than ten years of research into the nature of Platonism and Christianity, mysticism and religion, as well as of a very long personal, spiritual journey, is now available for download as an e-book/PDF-file. This is the longest and most significant literary…
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