Naming the Unnamable: Dionysius on Divine Names.
In On Divine Names the Christian neoplatonist Dionysius the Areopagite (~500 AD) develops a philosophical mode in which the form of the text follows from and advances his topic. This has not been recognized mostly because modern philosophical treatises have followed primarily the expository line of...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Platonic Tradition Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 131 - 160 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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