Dangerous Liaisons: Plutarch’s Appropriation of the Stoic Biological Model for Divine Causation
This paper examines a challenging passage in Plutarch’s Platonic Questions II against the background of contemporaneous debates about divine causation, arguing that it offers a brilliant solution to the question of how god can simultaneously be transcendent to the cosmos and act as an effective demi...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Έκδοση: |
2025
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| Στο/Στη: |
Phronesis
Έτος: 2025, Τόμος: 70, Τεύχος: 4, Σελίδες: 467-495 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Stoic theology
B biological model B demiurgy B Platonism B causal models B Plutarch’s cosmology |
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| Σύνοψη: | This paper examines a challenging passage in Plutarch’s Platonic Questions II against the background of contemporaneous debates about divine causation, arguing that it offers a brilliant solution to the question of how god can simultaneously be transcendent to the cosmos and act as an effective demiurgic cause. I contend that Plutarch’s strategy relies on appropriating the Stoic biological model to explain divine causation. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5284 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Phronesis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685284-bja10107 |
