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Atheistic Platonism

Part of the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17752-1

ISBN: 978-3-031-17751-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 1, 2022

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Renewing Atheism

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 1 –37

[Much of contemporary atheism is stuck in Plato’s cave. This is also Nietzsche’s cave, which is filled with the shadows of God. And while twilight atheists don’t believe in God, they still believe in his shadows. They are cultural theists who endorse theistic if-then chains which bind valuable...
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Starting at the Bottom

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 39 –58

[Platonic metaphysics aims to provide an ultimate account of the entire structure of being. This account cannot begin with any existing thing, but instead begins with the Platonic Zero, which is non-being. But non-being is pure negativity. Following Peirce and Heidegger, atheoplatonists say that...
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The One Emanates the Forms

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 59 –83

[As the self-negation of non-being, the One is also the self-affirmation of being. It therefore generates an unsurpassable system of beings. Just as the One emerged from the emptiness of the abyss, so objects emerge from the One. These objects are structured by the simplest generative relation,...
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The Cosmic Forms

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 85 –119

[The One generates the forms, which are set-theoretic structures. Some of these satisfy the requirements for physicality. These are abstract universes; they are cosmic forms. The concept of a cosmic form is illustrated with five cosmic forms, running from simple to more complex. These are an...
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The World Tree

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 121 –142

[When any abstract form is animated by the One, it manifests a concrete image of itself. Every animated cosmic form manifests a concrete universe. Atheistic Platonism provides a new and non-dualistic way of thinking about the relation between the abstract and the concrete. Abstract cosmic forms...
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The Emergence of Value

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 143 –169

[The transition from the Zero to the One points in the direction of increasing value. The One is the self-negation of non-being, and the negative of the negative is the positive. This positivity generates objective norms and standards, starting with the laws of logic. It generates an objective...
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Emergence of Life

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 171 –200

[Our sample lineage in the world tree rises from the empty universe to our universe. Along the way, universes emerge in which simpler parts self-organize into more complex wholes. Universes emerge in which self-organization is driven by thermodynamic principles. Self-regenerating systems emerge...
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Platonism as a Way of Life

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 201 –244

[The Platonic way of life aims at transforming you into a deity. And while ancient Platonists recommended many contemplative practices for self-deification, they also recommended ascetic ways of life. Ancient Platonists pursued the he telestike techne, the craft of self-surpassing. Further, they...
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Multiverse Rebirth

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 245 –273

[Ancient Platonists believed in reincarnation, along with karmic laws that transformed past lives into future lives. Since reincarnation involves natural laws rather than any deities, it can be further developed in an atheistic context. However, ancient reincarnation theories are both false and...
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To Call the World Tree

Steinhart, Eric Charles

Pages: 275 –303

[Just as ancient Platonism was a kind of ancient paganism, so atheistic Platonism is a kind of atheistic paganism. To illustrate the spiritual richness of atheoplatonism, it will be helpful to display its pagan aspects. We therefore cast a circle of reasoning into which we call the participants...

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