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Beatus Ignis Amoris Profile picture
Beatus Ignis Amoris
@timmodryoid
Religious Studies PhD Student @UVA. Onímọ̀-ìjìnlẹ̀ in progress. Really likes Platonism, Star Wars, Anime, and Comic book fandom. Hopeless Nerd.
Mar 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
These are great and true observations, but they are not an argument for atheism.

Premise 1: The attributes of Gods are correlated with ecological, social, and related contexts

Premise 2: Not stated

Conclusion: Atheism is true.

A premise is missing. Moh gives a great breakdown.

I'd just add that it could also be that Polytheism is true, and that in addition to human interpretation of Gods, that there are indeed many Gods who are truly seen in these "cultural" ways that are not mere approximations.

Mar 22 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
If one were to think about the main themes of ancient Platonist philosophy, what keeps coming up for me are:

1. Anti-reductionism.

Body is not reducible to Soul and vice versa. Neither are reducible to mind, and none is reducible to Unity. Each has a distinct principle. 2. Unity as first principle
The result of their anti-reductionism, each thing is given its place as much as possible. This means giving primacy to the *individuality* of things (i.e. things are units). Hence "Unity", as principle of individuality, is often their first principle.
Nov 18, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I respectfully disagree.

I think this is where one's philosophy of first principles (metaphysics), and what it says Gods are, come in.

If one follows Plato in affirming

1. Gods as always "good".
2. Gods as eternal.
3. Gods are unities (following the Platonic first principle ...which is unity as such).

...then one cannot reduce Gods to even how they are received. If, as Plato infers from the principle of each thing beyond classification, that Gods are sui generis, then one can receive them today, and this receipt does not have to agree with...
Jan 1, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Pt 2. History is also an imaginal construct.

What then separates it from myth?

One thing I can see right now is that myth is a bit "freer" in its logic. Maybe history is more passive and thus more determined?
Jan 1, 2024 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
Thoughts that won't let my mind rest that are too scattered for a blog post It seems to me that if the Jewish conception of divinity post-Josiah concentrates it in their primary God, polycentricity in the many Judaisms and Yahwisms before Christianity would be manifest in the "Theology of the Name". It would be a priestly metaphysics.
Apr 20, 2023 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
The One: Principle of Individuation

The principle by which all things are each "one thing" (Proclus: it holds each several thing together). It doesn't really exist (there's dispute on this but that's my position.) In any case the One as the principle of Individuation... ...is all but settled. This is so in Plato (cf Mary McCabe, "Plato's Individuals") as much as Plotinus (cf. EP Butler, "Plotinian Henadology"; Adam Labecki, "The One and the Many") and Proclus (EP Butler, "the Intelligible Gods in the Platonic Theology of Proclus")