To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Asclepigenia (Greek: Ἀσκληπιγένεια; fl. 430 – 485 AD) was an Athenian philosopher and mystic.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/2
    Views:
    83 129
    309
  • #6 - Mathématicienne et philosophe, écartelée pour son savoir - Virago - Hypatie
  • Sex, Lies, and Bigotry: The Canon of Philosophy. IAPh2021. Mary Ellen Waithe (2021).

Transcription

Biography

Asclepigenia was the daughter of Plutarch of Athens. She studied and taught, alongside her brother Hierius, at the Neoplatonic school of Athens. The school contended with the more scientific school in Alexandria.[1] Like other Neoplatonists of the time, she mainly studied Aristotle and Plato, but also her father's own philosophy. She lived in a historical context of turmoil due to the conflict between Neoplatonic metaphysics, which was taught in Plutarch's academy, and Christianity, which had been gaining in popularity at the time.

Plutarch of Athens’ philosophy worked to unify the teachings of Aristotle and Plato, and by doing so brought together the opposing pagan ideas of theurgy and mysticism (magic), which he had learned from his father, Nestorius, and then passed that knowledge onto Asclepigenia.[2] After Plutarch's death, she inherited the school as well as how it was to go about teaching its students. Being an acclaimed philosopher at the school in Athens, Asclepigenia went on to teach Proclus, who became her best known student.[1] She taught him not only the philosophies of Aristotle and Plato, but included teachings in the arts of theurgy and pagan mysticism her father had passed solely on to her before his death.

Being the expert in the theurgy, Asclepigenia taught from a metaphysical approach. She believed in there being five realms of reality: the One, Nature, Matter, Soul, and Intelligence. Like her father, she believed that every soul held a divine part inside itself, and that a union with the One, combined with magic, pagan thought of the deities, and meditation could result in true happiness for a person, as a way they could control their own fate.[1] Her teachings to Proclus on theurgy, benefited him greatly as he went on to think and develop his own ideas. He also supposedly was able to practice theurgy in such a way that it cured his friend's daughter, by use of a divine intervention with one of the gods.[3]

Asclepigenia continued to teach at the academy after Proclus went on to perfect his theurgical thoughts and practices. Her most well known achievements were in the arts and practicing rituals in the Chaldean mysticism of theurgy, as well as exceptional thought in Platonic philosophy. She passed along many of Aristotle and Plato's teachings to multiple students, including Plutarch. Her reverence in philosophy, as well as an astute female teacher, only adds to the value and importance of who she was in the Greek world. She contributed greatly to the development of Neoplatonic metaphysics and worked alongside many great philosophers, including her brother Hiero. Her advancements have impacted future thought on the practices of theurgy, as well as the arts and magic of the Chaldean mysticism. She is said to have died in the year 485 A.D.[2][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Waithe, Mary Ellen (1987) A History of Women Philosophers. Ancient Women Philosophers 600 B.C. – 500 A.D. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  2. ^ a b "Asclepigenia." Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
  3. ^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Asclepigenia Print.
  4. ^ Blumenthal, H.J. (1984). "Marinus' Life of Proclus: Neoplatonist Biography". Byzantion Wetteren. 54: 469–494.
This page was last edited on 26 February 2024, at 09:24
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.