Dialectic Spiritualism | IV Renaissance Thought | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Syamasundara dasa: It is Hobbes who declared, “Whatever exists is matter, and whatever changes is…
Dialectic Spiritualism | IV Renaissance Thought | Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Hayagriva dasa: Francis Bacon is generally acknowledged as the founding father of modern science in…
Dialectic Spiritualism | IV Renaissance Thought | Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Hayagriva dasa: Machiavelli has been called the most influential political philosopher of the Renaissance, and…
Dialectic Spiritualism | III SCHOLAS TICISM | John Duns Scotus (1265?-1308)
Hayagriva dasa: Scotus, a Thirteenth Century Scotsman, was Thomas Aquinas’s principal antagonist. Whereas Aquinas emphasized…
Dialectic Spiritualism | III SCHOLAS TICISM | Thomas Aquinas (1225?-1274)
Hayagriva dasa: Thomas Aquinas compiled the entire Church doctrine in Summa Theologiae, which constitutes the…
Dialectic Spiritualism | The Early Theists | Augustine (354-430)
Hayagriva dasa: Augustine considered the soul to be spiritual and incorporeal, but he also believed…
Dialectic Spiritualism | The Early Theists | Origen (185?-254?)
Hayagriva dasa: Origen is generally considered the founder of formal Christian philosophy, because he was…
Dialectic Spiritualism | The Early Theists | Plotinus (205?-270 A.D.)
Hayagriva dasa: Plotinus, as well as Origen, studied philosophy in Alexandria under the supposed founder…
Dialectic Spiritualism | The Greek Foundation | Aristotle (384-322 B . C. )
Hayagriva dasa: Plato made a sharp distinction between the material and spiritual universes, but this…
Dialectic Spiritualism | The Greek Foundation | Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Hayagriva dasa: For Plato, the spiritual world is not a mental conception; rather, truth is…