Polytheistic Platonism: Collected Essays (2026). US orders from Kindred Star Books https://t.co/xbTGF2aWHX; UK and elsewhere from The Prometheus Trust https://t.co/6wNu8VEoyt
Now I am pleased to announce that the volume has been published, with sixteen essays, one of which has never appeared anywhere before, a brilliant and thorough Introduction by Antonio Vargas, and a preface by Michael Griffin. https://t.co/6wNu8VEoyt
“As Maximus the Confessor says, our end is our beginning, our logoi are found in God's Logos, we come to be in God, by participation (Ambiguum Vll). That which is most interior to us, "essence;' is the most exterior: we become what we are by finitely traversing the infinitely —
"Six is a number perfect in itself...God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist."
- St. Augustine
'On Mathematics, Unity, and the Good' demonstrates that mathematical positions are based on metaphysical elements, which in turn provide schemata for evaluating and expanding metaphysical positions.
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Discussions of politics are greatly clarified by knowing what “politics” and “ethics” are
From Plato *and* Aristotle:
— Ethics is the study of the diseases of soul
— Politics is the study of the treatment of those diseases
And their dyadic inseparability reflects human nature
📄On "Nature"
Many terms in philosophy have been tactlessly manhandled by the history of philosophy: among "freedom", "idea", "cause", "substance" stands "nature" which has been said of in many ways. I am going to briefly examine many such predominantly classical uses.