Neo-Platonists

For all the Neo-Platonists 'rationalisations, sin is defined throughout Christian morality in additive terms, as an impurity which has been introduced and must be removed (specifically, "washed clean in the blood of the Lamb"), not as a deficiency which must be compensated for.

A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

I understand what the Neo-Platonists are trying to do, in not simply listing the absolute prescriptions and proscriptions of crude morality as a set of arbitrary imperatives where actions are required or forbidden.

A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

And the Neo-Platonists would make piss-poor object-oriented programmers if they can't distinguish the functional perfection of a specific method with a specific function from some sort of arbitrary hierarchisation of discrete methods with entirely discrete functions.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

I understand what the Neo-Platonists are trying to do, in not simply listing the absolute prescriptions and proscriptions of crude morality as a set of arbitrary imperatives where actions are required or forbidden.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

And the Neo-Platonists would make piss-poor object-oriented programmers if they can't distinguish the functional perfection of a specific method with a specific function from some sort of arbitrary hierarchisation of discrete methods with entirely discrete functions.

A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

For all the Neo-Platonists 'rationalisations, sin is defined throughout Christian morality in additive terms, as an impurity which has been introduced and must be removed (specifically, "washed clean in the blood of the Lamb"), not as a deficiency which must be compensated for.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

Here is Plotinus, perhaps the greatest of the Neo-Platonists, in his _Enneads_ III.ii.15:

"What is missing is the chaos of battle" 2007

There is no danger of the modern commentators on the Timaeus falling into the absurdities of the Neo-Platonists.

Timaeus 2006

The fancies of the Neo-Platonists are only interesting to us because they exhibit

Timaeus 2006

The Neo-Platonists, loyal to their master, like some commentators on the Christian Scriptures, sought to give an allegorical meaning to what they also believed to be an historical fact.

Timaeus 2006