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As already noted, [Jacob] Thomasius was not just a critical historian of philosophy. First and foremost, he was a pious Lutheran who believed that the biblical revelation was the only reliable source of religious truth…
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Moreover, and as one background reason for their [authors’ who were sympathetic to the ancient wisdom] attitude of caution [about magic], one should never lose sight of the fact that in the wake of the…
Like Savonarola, Gianfrancesco [Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s nephew & follower of Savonarola] points to sacred scripture as the sole, exclusive and absolutely infallible source of true knowledge: the certainty given by absolute…
One of the major humanists of quattrocento Italy, George [of Trebizond] was also a paranoid fanatic who believed in a conspiracy of platonists preparing the coming of the Antichrist. His Comparatio philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis,…
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Before moving on to the anti-apologetic reaction, it is important to provide a brief evaluation of what the preceding discussion contributes to the leading problematics of this book as a whole. I have been arguing…
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As Chaim Wirszubski remarks in his classic study [Pico della Mirandola’s Encounter. – GF], Pico set out to prove the Christian truth by means of Jewish kabbalah, but “as thesis after thesis yields up its…
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What we find, therefore, is a strong tension between two opposed tendencies: on the one hand, a historically/chronologically oriented narrative of ancient wisdom which held considerable revolutionary potential, and, on the other, an essentially conservative…
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Bion, W.R., Cogitations. Edited by Francesca Bion. London: Karnac Books (1992) [Undated] […] * * * I wish now to regard the Oedipus myth, the Sophoclean version of that myth, and Freud’s own discoveries as all…
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Насущныя составляющія конспирологическаго мышленiя – компилированіе и(ли) разработка нѣкихъ собственныхъ методическихъ указаній, которыя будутъ служить своего рода эрзацъ-картиной міра, съ одной стороны, и уменіе обнаруживать факты, имъ противурѣчащія, съ другой (см. также). Вотъ, къ примѣру,…
The best defence against conspiracies, it would seem from both Livy and Tacitus, is fortune, an irrefutable force impervious to contradiction. Yet, it is hollow comfort to concede that the powder keg of contingency is…
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