(April 10, 2012 at 11:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Have you ever read "On the True Doctrine" by Hoffman, M/M?
In essence what Hoffman did was to extract the words of Celsus from Origen's Contra Celsus. Celsus pre-dates Plotinus by about 50 years. It's an interesting little book...especially when you get all the xtian bullshit out of it.
Sounds interesting. I am mildly familiar with Origen but not familiar with Celsus.Origen is very similar to Plotinus and the NeoPlatonists particularly in their assertion regarding the unity of god or the "One" as Plotinus would put it. They also state that god is bound by logic and Origen goes a bit further and states that god is also bound by his attributes of "goodness and justice". Both utilize and rely heavily on the idea of the Logos or the agency of god to reveal himself through logic.
On another note, Origen was the one who castrated himself right?
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"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
