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Постановка проблемы о понимании божественного у платона
Towards the problem of understanding of the divine by Plato

Author(s): Andrey Tikhonov, Ruslan Frantsuzov
Subject(s): Ancient Philosphy, Philosophy of Religion
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Plato; God; Divine; Demiurge; Paradigm; Creation; World;

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the consideration of such an aspect of Plato's philosophy as theology. Starting with the "Platonic Theology" of Proclus Diadochus, this point of view and the system of interpretation of philosophical research character continued to develop and refine a number of categories and ideas developed by Plato - Demiurge, ideas of "mixing", ideas of "creation", categories of paradigm (within the dispute about universals), etc. However, if we recognize the equality of the ontological status of the Demiurge, the paradigm and the created world (to whom the blessed god was given life), we come across a number of problems that are expressed not only in the understanding of the "divine" itself, but also in relation to what, within the framework of the "theological" view of Plato, can be called deified or divine images (Demiurge, paradigm and the created world). In this paper, an attempt will be made to demonstrate these contradictions, and to make a number of comments.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 217-225
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian