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DOI	10.1163/18725473-BJA10007
	Harmonizing Binaries: Hypatia's Synesius
	Markus, Donka
通讯作者	Markus, D (corresponding author), Univ Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.
来源期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION
ISSN	1872-5082
EISSN	1872-5473
出版年	2021
卷号	15 期号:1 页码:49-81
英文摘要	Hypatia and Synesius lived in a highly divisive time with religious extremism on the rise and the meaning and role of Classical cultural fixtures like paideia, philosophia and manteia being questioned and redefined. I examine Synesius' Letters, Dion, and De Insomniis to tease out the universalizing and harmonizing tendencies between pagan and Christian, theoria and paideia, philosophia and manteia that Synesius' writings, life and career embody. I look at Synesius' synthesis of Iamblichean and Plotinian tendencies, a binary found in modern scholarship, to show that theurgy was likely part of Hypatia's teaching within a well-rounded curriculum that included classical paideia and philosophical theoria. Synesius advocates for the importance of paideia, including rhetoric and philosophia as aids in the step-by-step approach to the spiritual ascent, while also acknowledging the value and universal accessibility of theoria reached by desert monks and the dream- divination (oneiromanteia) that everyone can experience in sleep. Paideia makes the fall from the heights of theoria more pleasant, while philosophia (which in Synesius' mind included theurgy) is essential for purifying the pneuma and making it receptive to divinely inspired dreams. I propose that it was in Hypatia's school that Synesius internalized a quote (from a lost work of Aristotle) that reconciles the two approaches (curated and amateur) to the ascent. While society at large was obsessed with ever widening opposites and binaries, Hypatia's Synesius both overtly and covertly emphasized harmonization and unity that are at the heart of philosophia.
英文关键词	theurgy pagan Christian dream-divination philosophy contemplation education
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000647461700004
WOS类目	Philosophy
WOS研究方向	Philosophy
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362269
作者单位	[Markus, Donka] Univ Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Markus, Donka. Harmonizing Binaries: Hypatia's Synesius[J],2021,15(1):49-81.
APA	Markus, Donka.(2021).Harmonizing Binaries: Hypatia's Synesius.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION,15(1),49-81.
MLA	Markus, Donka."Harmonizing Binaries: Hypatia's Synesius".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION 15.1(2021):49-81.

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