... to Philosophy, highlighting influential intersections between Dorotheus’ project and philosophical ideas of godlikeness and the practice of death. It then analyses how humility, understood as an epistemic virtue, organizes Dorotheus epistemology and generates epistemic practices in the monasteries...

... ethics to practical and theoretical rationality. No one doubts, however, that he regarded the essence of the human self as the godlike capacity of intellect (nous). This chapter argues that the divinity of nous pertains to reason’s contributions to happiness throughout...

... on Plato’s Phaedo in Phd Plato Chaldaean Oracles Damascius ethics godlikeness homoiôsis theôi ὁμοίωσις θεῷ happiness well being eudaimonia εὐδαιμονία initiation epopteia ἐποπτεία mystagogy mustagôgia μυσταγωγία teletê τελετή Julian the Elder Julian the Younger Marcus Aurelius Porphyry S soul...

... judgements and emotional responses. Our discussion also lent new support to the hunch that the distinct sources of challenge to the idea of godlikeness I outlined at the outset—conceptual, normative, and practical—are hard to separate in practice. Issues of what is intelligible, what is admirable, and what...

...The conclusion to this book provides a bite-sized reflection on the different ways in which we can take an interest in ideas, and in the idea of godlikeness that has formed the topic of the book. In the last stretch of my discussion, I traced out some of the avenues of exploration—empirical...

... W R M Gorgias Hermann K F Hermann K F and Wohlrab M Paulus Plutarch Poste E Stallbaum G Van Heusde P W Hesychius process state means end health godlikeness pure pleasures fourfold division Ever since antiquity the Philebus has been notorious for the sudden...

... already is. The answer also depends on Plato’s conception of beauty as being, in general, the manifestation or appearing of goodness, and of human beauty in particular—both beauty of soul and beauty of body—as the splendid manifestation of godlikeness. When the lover is struck by the sight...

... dialogic structure teleology disrupted ideal of godlikeness recast love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall. —e. e. cummings, 50 Poems It is precisely because I forget that I read. —Roland Barthes, S/Z My final reading of the living-animal analogy...

... Marcus Aurelius virtues ethics politics telos/goal (of human life) happiness scale of virtues godlikeness Proclus’ philosophy—like much of Neoplatonism—is widely thought to be focused almost exclusively on metaphysics. His best-known works seem to be principally concerned with mapping...

...The Greek moral philosophers shared the idea that happiness as the final good of human beings consists in godlikeness. Humans become godlike, if they exercise in as unadulterated a form as possible their intellect, because god is, for the philosophers, intellect. The chapter sketches the historical...

... with which al-Ghazālī opened his discussion. What are we to make of this? Perhaps his position struck him as involving a significant enough departure from more restrictive views of godlikeness to count as a defence of an inclusive proposal. The reason al-Qushayrī had given for explaining why the assumption...