This book examines religious and 'scientific'/philosophical accounts of world-generation as represented by the figure of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god.
This book examines religious and 'scientific'/philosophical accounts of world-generation as represented by the figure of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god.
Carl Séan O'Brien is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg and Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition at Trinity College Dublin.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Demiurgy and other approaches to world-generation 2. Plato's Timaeus, the original concept of the Demiurge and the exegesis of the dialogue 3. Logos into Demiurge: Philo of Alexandria as witness to developments in contemporary Platonism 4. Plutarch and the Demiurge of Egyptian mythology 5. A simplified understanding of God: Maximus of Tyre 6. Numenius and his doctrine of three Gods 7. On the fringes of philosophy: speculations in Hermetism 8. The ignorant Demiurge: Valentinus and the Gnostics 9. Origen, the Demiurge and Christian theology 10. Plotinus and the demise of the Demiurge 11. Concluding remarks.
1. Demiurgy and other approaches to world-generation 2. Plato's Timaeus, the original concept of the Demiurge and the exegesis of the dialogue 3. Logos into Demiurge: Philo of Alexandria as witness to developments in contemporary Platonism 4. Plutarch and the Demiurge of Egyptian mythology 5. A simplified understanding of God: Maximus of Tyre 6. Numenius and his doctrine of three Gods 7. On the fringes of philosophy: speculations in Hermetism 8. The ignorant Demiurge: Valentinus and the Gnostics 9. Origen, the Demiurge and Christian theology 10. Plotinus and the demise of the Demiurge 11. Concluding remarks.
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