Numenius, who in some ways anticipated Plotinus, the. From Wordnik.com. [NEO-PLATONISM] Reference
Apparently, this was one of Numenius 'most important works. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius appears to claim even that Plato was not faultless. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
Numenius 'influence goes beyond the contemporaries of Plotinus. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
If this is so, then for Numenius only the intellect is immortal. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius discusses Plato's use of the character Euthyphro in the. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius 'work is important both historically and philosophically. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
We are fortunate to know the titles of some of Numenius 'treatises. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
The extent of Numenius 'influence on Plotinus was debated in antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius uses very metaphorical language, inspired by the myth of Plato's. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
There is a question of how to understand Numenius 'hierarchy of three gods. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Plato, Numenius suggests, did not present his doctrines sufficiently clearly. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Then do you not see that to be a judge is just of the same value as Numenius is?. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
Furthermore, a number of indications suggest Atticus 'own dependence on Numenius. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius 'work was particularly well known and appreciated by the early Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
The existing evidence associates Numenius with two cities, Apamea in Syria and Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Quite the opposite is the case: for Numenius the world is good because it is ordered. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius 'system of three principles of reality, similar to Plotinus' hypostases of One. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Yet the Good and the other principles of reality introduced by Numenius are treated as gods. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Thus, Numenius was reported to have asked “What else is Plato than Moses speaking Greek?”. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoreanism] Reference
The existing evidence about Numenius suggests that he was strongly concerned with metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius appears to be reacting against this view, which is associated specifically with Moderatus. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
There are three reasons accounting for such a strong approval of Numenius by the early Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
The Tuamotus are also important wintering habitat for the Bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitensis). From Wordnik.com. [Tuamotu tropical moist forests] Reference
To the extent that Numenius is an exegete of Plato, Christians feel entitled to claim that Plato in the. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Slender-billed curlew Numenius tenuirostris (K) has occurred on passage (28 in 1971 and one or two in 1989). From Wordnik.com. [Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania] Reference
Second how can it be simple, as Numenius has claimed, if it is, as he has also claimed, an intellect that thinks?. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Here Numenius seems to refer to Plato's writing of dialogues, which allegedly obscures what the underlying doctrine is. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius had a powerful influence on later Platonism, especially on Plotinus and many Platonists of Plotinus 'generation. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Numenius presents his own doctrine of matter, which is clearly developed out of Plato's Timaeus, as the work of Pythagoras. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoreanism] Reference
Numenius is indeed closer to the Pythagorean table of opposites described by Aristotle and to Plato's unwritten doctrines. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoreanism] Reference
Plotinus 'students, Amelius and Porphyry, were concerned to discredit the widespread charge of Plotinus' plagiarism of Numenius. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Dillon (1977, 364) has speculated that in this work Numenius proposed allegorical interpretations of aspects of Platonic dialogues. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
Well acquainted with Numenius 'philosophy was Cronius, Numenius' contemporary (frs. 46b 48), as well as Atticus (see Life and Work). From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
For Numenius it is just that Plato wrote so many philosophical works, whereas Pythagoras 'views were originally passed on only orally. From Wordnik.com. [Numenius] Reference
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