Word and meaning in ancient Alexandria [electronic resource] : theories of language from Philo to Plotinus / David Robertson.
By: Robertson, David.
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BookPublisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008Description: xiii, 117 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Language and languages -- Philosophy | Christian literature, EarlyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 401 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Philo -- Divine logos and human language -- Characteristics of mind -- Immateriality of mind -- The physical and the immaterial -- The nature of meaning -- The inferiority of speech -- The stoic legacy -- Clement -- The divine logos -- Dialectic and language -- The intelligibility of language -- Language, immateriality, and prayer -- Origen -- Christian platonism, psychology -- The immateriality of mind -- Voice and language -- Mind and body in language -- Other influences -- Plotinus -- The metaphysics of language -- Image and representation -- The logos of plotinus -- Limitations of language, origins of language -- The nature of language -- Soul and body, light and sound -- Language and communion -- Soul connection -- The unity of souls in politics.
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