By Deirdre Carabine
""This booklet incorporates a cautious, thorough, and the place useful skeptical as regards uncertain proof (especially in terms of Plato and the previous Academy) of the beginnings in ecu considered the unfavourable or apophatic mind set and its kinfolk to extra confident or kataphatic methods of considering God. considered one of its maximum strengths, might be the best, is that the writer makes transparent that not one of the individuals involved, Hellenic, Jewish or Christian, was once engaged within the pursuit of a philosophical abstraction, or the heaping of rhetorical superlatives on God. They have been relatively involved to provide the foundation of the universe as an in detail current residing truth which infinitely transcends our idea and speech. This, mixed with cautious recognition to the different types of detrimental theology and its family with optimistic, and the actual problems skilled by means of the contributors of many of the traditions concerned, makes the publication the simplest creation to the unfavorable theology available."" -A. H. Armstrong, Emeritus Professor of Greek, college of Liverpool, England. Emeritus Professor of Classics, Dalhousie college, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Senior Fellow of the British Academy. Irish educational Deirdre Carabine has lived and taught in Uganda for greater than 20 years. She has lately been founder Vice-Chancellor on the digital college of Uganda (VUU), the 1st absolutely on-line college in Sub-Saharan Africa. sooner than that she organize foreign overall healthiness Sciences college in Kampala. She has taught at Queen's Belfast, college collage Dublin, and Uganda Martyrs collage. at the moment, she is Director of Programmes at VUU. She attended the Queen's college of Belfast the place she graduated with a PhD in philosophy, and college university Dublin the place, as one of many first Newman students, she received a moment PhD in Classics. She is additionally writer of John Scottus Eriugena within the nice Medieval Thinkers sequence (2000).
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CHAPTER FOUR SECOND-CENTURY PLATONISM: ALCINOUS, BASILIDES AND NUMENIUS Alcinous: fhe First God Alcinous was active in Smyrna between AD 149 - I 57, when Galen followed his lectures there. Although Alcinous does not appear to have been connected with the Academy, he can be regarded as one of the best representatives of 'orthodox' Platonism in the second century. He was largely forgotten until, in the fifteenth century, Petrus Balbus undertook to translate his writings for Nicholas of Cusa . l J Whittake1. 'Plutarch. Platonism and Christianity', p 54 11 See 372E 12 For fm1her comment see J Dillon. op cit p 191 13 14 See 392E-394C See E R. Dodds, 'The Parmenides of Plato' p 142 58 MIDDLE PLATONISM AND THE CORPUS I-IERMEllCUM CHAPl ER I HREE Apuleius which illustrate his particular development of theological Platonism. /atone, God is described as incmporeus, unus, apeJimetJo-s; he is Father and creator of all: genitor re1wnque omnium exstructor, and he is the most perfect because he is beatus, beatificus, optimus, nihil indigens, and ipse confer ens cuncta 16 This lavish list of positive assertions points to the supreme transcendent God, as he is in himself, while the negatives which follow can be understood to refer to the human understanding of him. Where oUcrio·rrtto~ and 8:::(vnrr6<; are found (XII, 1). :; voou~Evou: X 3 76 77 CHAPTER FOUR ALCINOUS BASIUDES AND NUMENIUS Good, emphasized in the same way as the term, Beauty Although a cursmy reading of second-century Platonic texts would give the impression that the Platonic principles, Good, Beauty, and One, are identified with the supreme nous, this is not the case. Here in Alcinous, we have the first explicit identification of God with the agathon since we found it in Plutarch 17 Alcinous also refers to Timaeus 28C when he says that God may be called Father because he is the Maker of all; he orders both the celestial intelligence and the soul of the world Interestingly, Alcinous never refers to God as demiurge; he orders the wmld, but he is not said to have made it However, Alcinous does not follow the teaching of the I imaeus text to the letter - in fact, so few of the Middle Platonists do - for he notes that while God is ineffable, he may be comprehended by the intellect through nous 18 According to the Didaskalikos, then, God is not unknowable, but it is difficult to reach any understanding of him Alcinous then outlines three ways through which an idea of God may be reached; the first of these is the way of successive negations (aphairesis), the method which is best used to obtain a first idea of God.