古典时代的转变.pptVIP

Platonists The celestial configuration as indicative rather than causal Man could play an active role in the cosmic scheme Neoplatonism One field of thought sought to bridge the Hellenistic schism between the rational philosophies and the mystery religions The development of Plato’s thought The highest transcendent principle : “the One”(“太一”) New emphasis on “the flight from the body”(“超脱肉体”) Locating the Form(型) within the divine mind Concern for the problem of evil and its relation to matter Plotinus(柏罗丁) Formulated a “Neoplatonic” philosophy Aristotelian thought a mystical element Greek rational philosophy End point Another religious spirit, a suprarational mysticism A new era The three “hypostases”(“实体”) The One(太一) The Neoplatonic cosmos Infinite in being Also called the Good(善) In a hierarchical series of gradations moving away from this ontological center to the extreme limits of the possible The three “hypostases” are not literal entities but rather spiritual dispositions, but rather different states of being of the divine Mind. The material word In negative terms In positive terms It reflects on a higher level in the spiritual Intellect’s world of Forms The nature of man is soul-in-body Potential access to the highest intellectual and spiritual realms Man’s rational soul can reflect the transcendent Forms The entire universe Exists in a process of emanation and return The task of philosophers Overcome the human bondage to the physical realm by moral and intellectual self-discipline and purification Plotinus’ neoplatonism Rationalist and idealist metaphysics Precision prose Basing his philosophy on the Platonic doctrine of transcendent Ideas The final expression of classical pagan philosophy Conclusion Neoplatonism and astrology transcended Results of penetrating and intermingling Enduring and hidden influence Although their popularity, powerful forces had begun to impinge The transformation The latter efforts of Hellenic culture lack