Was Plato, by virtue of supernatural insight, or some other paranormal power, a “Christian” nearly four centuries before the Incarnation of the Word? That is what some, when confronted with the exceptionally lofty doctrines of Platonism, and the great similarity between some of them and Christianity, have claimed. I do not entirely reject that as…
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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…
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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