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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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Phronesis
Year: 2025, 卷: 70, 發布: 4, Pages: 467-495 |
| Further subjects: | B
Stoic theology
B biological model B demiurgy B Platonism B causal models B Plutarch’s cosmology |
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| 總結: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Phronesis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685284-bja10107 |
