The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous: Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity by Mark Wildish

Author:Mark Wildish [Wildish, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, General
ISBN: 9781351376532
Google: z-YrDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 26536307
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Whether this is an accurate picture of one kind of difference between scholastic or doctrinal tendencies or not, one especial advantage of late Platonism for the understanding of the hieroglyphic tradition is nevertheless its position at the end of the broader development of Platonism quite generally. The consequent prospect of both an overview and synthesis of preceding developments is possible, in fact, in large part due to a curricular feature across which those themes are distributed. The themes in question are classifiable into the three parts: natural science, logic, and theology. Inquiring into natural causes and phenomena, the natural science part looks to material originating in hieroglyphic Egyptian from the perspective of Graeco-Egyptian cultural and natural history. For the inquiry into the processes of discursive reasoning, the logical part looks to hieroglyphic Egyptian from the perspective of the rational relations between language, mind, and world. The theological part looks to the unity, origin, and efficacy of hieroglyphic wisdom on the subject of the gods and cosmology.

The question, therefore, with which the following sections are concerned is how these three parts of the curriculum are related to each in such a way as to account for both the role played by theosophical speculation in general, and hieroglyphic exegesis in particular. The aim is to establish the Egyptizing philosophical subjects both as proper topics for philosophical investigation and as consciously addressing the Christian accusations of sophistical and allegorical obscurity.

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