Sublime

For a robust, and complicated, treatment of various difficult doctrines centered around the incarnation, see Gerald O’Collins, Incarnation. O’Collins,

Philosophy introduced a new element to the relationship with external opinion, what one might visualize as a box into which all public perceptions, whether positive or negative, would first have to be directed in order to be assessed, and then sent on to the self with renewed force if they were true, or ejected harmlessly into the atmosphere to be

the more theological side of Stoicism owes a good deal to Platonic inspiration; Stoics and Platonists (and even Aristotle, though less flamboyantly) thought of human rationality as a godlike trait and of human improvement as a matter of becoming more and more like god.

“Platonism,” he says, “is part of the vital structure of Christian theology, with which no other philosophy, I venture to say, can work without friction.” There is, he says, an “utter impossibility of excising Platonism from Christianity without tearing Christianity to pieces.” He points out that Saint Augustine speaks of Plato’s system as “the mos

La philosophie n’est point une théorie divisée en trois parties, mais « un acte unique qui consiste à vivre la logique, la physique et l’éthique. On ne fait plus la théorie de la logique, c’est-à-dire du bien parler et du bien penser, mais on pense et on parle bien ; on ne fait plus la théorie du monde physique, mais on contemple le cosmos ; on ne