Av Edmund Schilvold (M.Th.) Oktober 2023 Kan antikkens platonske akademi, som i århundrer spilte en sentral rolle i det gamle Hellas’ og i Europas kulturelle og religiøse liv, men som på 500-tallet ble tvangsnedlagt av den østromerske keiseren, gjenopplives i vår tid, her i det høye nord? Det er et spørsmål jeg har stilt meg…
Stikkord: republic
Plato was no «totalitarian», and the «Republic» is primarily an allegory
This article on Plato’s «Republic», by the very insightful Prof. John Ubersax, makes a point which cannot be repeated frequently enough, considering how often Plato’s greatest dialogue is misunderstood and misconstrued, even by scholars, namely that the Politeia (the ancient Greek title of this work) is in fact an extended metaphor, dealing with the life…
The misconstrual of Plato’s Republic, that St. Augustine quotes Socrates, and other discoveries
Below are some examples of what my master’s thesis in theology and philosophy (which you may download for free, as a PDF, by clicking on this link) achieves in terms of research and discoveries: 1. Introduction: St. Augustine of Hippo (the famous church father) quotes directly from Plato’s Republic (arguably one of the greatest literary…
Why Christian theology studies and a decade of reading ancient texts made me a (Christian) Platonist
In the following, I shall attempt to briefly explain why I am applying for admittance to a doctoral program in philosophy. It may, I freely acknowledge, seem a little odd that someone who has essentially been preparing to become a priest since 2015 would make this decision, at the very time when he is on…
Master’s thesis «follow-up»: A new and ground-breaking analysis of the Socratic and Platonic concept of the Good (free 24-page essay/e-book)
For the first time since 2020, I am now publishing a major literary production of mine here, on this blog — an essay-like academic paper exclusively devoted to a comprehensive analysis of and certain musings regarding what one might style the ontological nature of Plato’s Good, which, as I believe I have come very close…
Edmund Schilvold: Skribent, fotograf, filosof, friluftsentusiast 