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Socrates and DiotimaDemonizing the Daemonic

Socrates and Diotima: Demonizing the Daemonic [In Timaeus’s account of primal beginnings, creation takes place in two stages. The divine Creator first orders the material world according to mathematical principles. Then, being immortal himself, he must delegate to helpers or “demigods” the task of building to his specifications the mortal bodies that will clothe the bits of diluted soul stuff he donates for that purpose. Suddenly, in a narrative moment fateful for the future of monotheist polemics, there appeared a race of intermediary supernatural “beings” between God and humans. In subsequent Platonist and Christian writings, “personified daemons” would play an increasingly important role.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Socrates and DiotimaDemonizing the Daemonic

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series
Nye, Andrea
Socrates and Diotima — Dec 1, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-57292-2
Pages
97 –114
DOI
10.1057/9781137514042_7
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Abstract

[In Timaeus’s account of primal beginnings, creation takes place in two stages. The divine Creator first orders the material world according to mathematical principles. Then, being immortal himself, he must delegate to helpers or “demigods” the task of building to his specifications the mortal bodies that will clothe the bits of diluted soul stuff he donates for that purpose. Suddenly, in a narrative moment fateful for the future of monotheist polemics, there appeared a race of intermediary supernatural “beings” between God and humans. In subsequent Platonist and Christian writings, “personified daemons” would play an increasingly important role.]

Published: Dec 1, 2015

Keywords: Religious Practice; Evil Spirit; Sexual Misconduct; Pagan Temple; Christian Writing

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