Barbarian Philosophy

"The barbarian philosophy, which we follow, is in reality perfect and true." – Clement of Alexandria

[Barbarian Philosophy @exaiphnes]

@ajsjohnston God bless you for this. My elderly parents are in Highlands. I'm overseas, all I can do is pray and hope I hear from them soon.

[Barbarian Philosophy @exaiphnes]

No clue what he's blabbering about, but this is a pro-Barbarian account and we will ALWAYS stand for Barbarian rights against the tide of anti-Barbarian hate. We strongly DENOUNCE the ethnic cleansing of Barbaria.

Follow and stay tuned for philosophy from a BARBARIAN perspective

[Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari]

There is a movement afoot on the online right to smash the notion of equal human dignity---and to normalize eugenic ideas and overt racial hatred and anti-Semitism.

I call its adherents the Barbarian Right.

I write about them for @TheFP today. https://t.co/1TUvWbIMXI

[Indo-Christian Culture @indo_christian]

St. Pantaenus the Philosopher (L) of 200AD travelled to India where he reported that the Apostle Bartholomew (R) had preached the gospel in India. He even returned with a copy of the Gospel of Matthew, written in Hebrew, used by Bartholomew and preserved by local Christians.

[Barbarian Philosophy @exaiphnes]

This passage also has some relation to arguments in the Divine Names of St. Dionysius the Areopagite.

What did St. Pantaenus know?

[Barbarian Philosophy @exaiphnes]

There's a lot more going on here than meets the eye. It reveals a high level of Christian theological sophistication in the 2nd half of the 2nd century. It implies a doctrine of creatio ex nihilo & a theological exegesis of Plato's Parmenides—a hallmark of later Neoplatonism.

[Barbarian Philosophy @exaiphnes]

@owenbroadcast Creation from preexistent matter was a fairly common idea in the ancient world (creatio ex nihilo was virtually only a Christian thing). St. Pantaenus made an airtight argument against it that has gone almost unnoticed for two millennia. I'm planning an article about it this week