Platão e platonismo

Categoria: Platonistas de Cambridge

  • John Smith: apatheia

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    Era uma boa máxima dos antigos escritores judeus, “o Espírito Santo não habita em paixões terrenas e terrestres”. A divindade não é tão bem percebida por uma inteligência sutil, mas por um sentido purificado”, como diz Plotino. … O próprio Aristóteles considerava um jovem impróprio para se intrometer nos graves preceitos da moralidade, até que…

  • Vieillard-Baron (1988:39-41) – o microcosmo e sua imagem

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    La correspondance entre microcosme et macrocosme implique une notion déterminée de Dieu et de l’esprit. Il faut donc poser maintenant la question suivante : quelle est la nature de la connaissance humaine pour que le monde soit le reflet de l’homme ? A cette question, Cudworth répond en écartant d’abord l’empirisme. Il y a en…

  • Vieillard-Baron (1988:34-39) – macrocosmo

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    Dans sa Défense de la Kabbale, Henry More nous dit que ” Rien n’est plus rebattu et ordinaire que de comparer l’homme à l’Univers, et d’en faire un petit monde, un monde en résumé Ceci ne signifie pas qu’une telle comparaison ait nécessairement une valeur philosophique réelle. Bien au contraire, il fait se méfier des…

  • Vieillard-Baron (1988:32-34) – mundo, espelho sem reflexo

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    Si le monde est le miroir de l’homme, si le macrocosme est le reflet du microcosme, une juste compréhension de l’homme est impliquée dans une juste théorie du monde. Du point de vue ontologique, la réflexion du microcosme dans l’univers qui est son miroir manifeste chez More et Cudworth la prééminence de l’homme sur le…

  • Peter Sterry: Renascer

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    At the season of the New Birth, says Sterry, ” God discovers Himself in the soul as a glorious ground, out of which thy life and thy Jesus spring up together by degrees, like twin-lilies— roses from the same stalk or root, which is Christ.” When the set time is come, nothing can withstand that…

  • Peter Sterry: Conversão

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    To assist our conversion, we do well to consider these four questions : (1) What are we? By descending into our own being, and entering into ” the secretest retirement” of our own spirit, we shall discover that we are not our own original, but that there is ” some eternal thing ” above our…

  • Peter Sterry: Pensamento

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    The mystic or evangelical life is, according to Sterry’s teaching, a life in which man ministers unto God, offering up himself unto God “as a perpetual sacrifice in a flame of love,” and receiving from Him divine manifestations and communications according to the divine good pleasure, ” and all this with an open contemplation of…

  • Peter Sterry: Obra

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    In addition to various sermons, Sterry’s published works consist of The Spirit Convincing of Sin, London, 1645 ; Discourse of the Freedom of the Will, London, 1675—the preface to which, one writer has said ” will bear a comparison with Cudworth’s famous sermon on the same subject”; The Rise, Race and Royalty of the Kingdom…

  • John Smith: Discurso III – Semelhança

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    Such as men themselves are, such will God Himself seem to be. It is the maxim of most wicked men, that the Deity is some way or other like themselves; their souls do more than whisper it, though their lips speak it not; and though their tongues be silent, yet their lives cry it upon…

  • John Smith: Discurso II – Busca

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    To seek our divinity merely in books and writings, is to seek the living among the dead: we do but in vain seek God many times in these, where His truth too often is not so much enshrined as entombed: — no; intra te quaere Deum, seek for God within thine own soul; He is…