Some Points to the Explanation of the Concept of οὐσία θεοῦ in the Hermetic Literature

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dc.contributor.authorHamvas, Endre
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T11:06:58Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T11:06:58Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-09
dc.description.abstractThe philosophical problem how the essence of God can be defined and what this substance, if it can be called a substance at all, might be like is present in several treatises of the Corpus Hermeticum and in some philosophical and theological texts of late antiquity. In my essay I try to find the correct interpretation of the idiom οὐσία θεοῦ in the Hermetic texts with the help of some parallel writings from Jamblich and Sallustius. After the explanation of the relevant texts I conclude that the term οὐσία is used only to the cosmic gods, not to the first principle, and it has the function to connect the absolute transcendent first cause to the material world through the cosmic gods. The main source of this conception is the platonic tradition, as it can be seen not only from the similarity of the content, but from the similar use of the philosophical terms.en
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dc.identifier.citationActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 45 (2009) , 29–43
dc.identifier.eissn2732-3390
dc.identifier.issn0418-453X
dc.identifier.jatitleActa Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.
dc.identifier.jtitleActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/317335en
dc.identifier.volume45
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/8090
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.subjectοὐσιάρχηςen
dc.subjectοὐσία θεοῦen
dc.subjectCorpus Hermeticumen
dc.subjectAsclepiusen
dc.subjectSallustiusen
dc.subjectNumeniusen
dc.subjectJamblichen
dc.subjectfirst causeen
dc.subjectcosmic godsen
dc.titleSome Points to the Explanation of the Concept of οὐσία θεοῦ in the Hermetic Literatureen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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