tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post7430587829335162047..comments2023-11-05T04:09:26.194-05:00Comments on e g r e g o r e s: "In reality, Christian theology is the antithesis of Platonic theology." (Niketas Siniossoglou on essentialism, anti-essentialistm, Hellenism and Christianity)Apuleius Platonicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-32661831108617832882014-11-11T09:04:35.448-05:002014-11-11T09:04:35.448-05:00Marlon, I am enough of an anti-modernist that I ra...Marlon, I am enough of an anti-modernist that I rarely concern myself with any philosophers who lived any later than Simplicius, although I do make exceptions. What little I know of Latour seems to suggest that he might not be quite as guilty as you suggest, for at least two reasons. For one thing, he applies the methodology of constructivism to modernism itself and in particular to the "anthropology of science", which tends to undermine that key article of modernism: blind faith in science. Secondly, Latour appears to want to distance himself from so-called "postmodernism" and actually attacks that other pillar of postmodernism: the naive assumption that "moderns" are inherently more sophisticated in our understanding of ourselves and the world than all those who have come before.Apuleius Platonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-21909895319738422592014-11-10T18:55:48.271-05:002014-11-10T18:55:48.271-05:00It all comes down to whether or not you believe th...It all comes down to whether or not you believe the Golden Chain has an objective reality, beyond being merely a social construct.<br /><br />Devotional/'Hard' polytheists who hold Plato in contempt for theological and ideological reasons, are never going to accept the notion that understanding the Platonic worldview is necessary to truly grasp both Hellenismos and the Theoi Themselves.<br /><br />Platonists who honor the Deathless Ones will always see things differently. This is one of those religious/cultural fault lines that will always exist among self-identified Hellenists...and may have always existed.<br /><br />In the interest of full disclosure, I despise both post-modernism, and the obscurantist secret code in which its anointed prophets utter their glossolalia. <br /><br />AetiusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-52350769994410470332014-11-10T10:50:53.130-05:002014-11-10T10:50:53.130-05:00The idea of everything being a social construction...The idea of everything being a social construction comes from 1970s France and Bruno Latour, correct? Latour has said some things that are outlandish and silly. I do not think everything is a social construction personally, and I think "intellectuals" of the academic variety should steer clear of such nonsense.mchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982904495959648778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-85124128276002090532014-11-09T15:54:02.784-05:002014-11-09T15:54:02.784-05:00Platonism must not be understood in a narrow sense...Platonism must not be understood in a narrow sense. Plato is as fundamental to Hellenism as Homer is.Apuleius Platonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-18767130557930217952014-11-09T14:00:06.081-05:002014-11-09T14:00:06.081-05:00"Hellenism, as a religious designation, is sy..."Hellenism, as a religious designation, is synonymous with the Pagan Platonic philosophy."<br /><br />This is a statement of belief which is inherently false. No one philosophy is synonymous with the threskia of Hellenism. Though I do agree that later Christian apologists did take Platon out of context (read Edward Butler on Plato's inherent polytheism)because of the Myth of the Cave etc. However, no one philosophy can be attached to the "religion" because it was NOT really a religion back then but a threskia, things done for the Gods. Julia Erganehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613625453621934834noreply@blogger.com