title: “The Egyptian Hermes”: Philosophical Mysticism and Revealed Knowledge
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metadata.value: Afonasin, Eugene V.
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metadata.value: 2024-03-01T17:12:49Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03-01T17:12:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Afonasin E V. “The Egyptian Hermes”: Philosophical Mysticism and Revealed Knowledge. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 4, pp. 776–785. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.414 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.414
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45017
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metadata.value: The tendency to historicity is an important tendency in the modern history of philosophy.
  Hence a question: to which extend the treatises of Hermetic corpus seem to us historical,
  and properly connected with Egypt? Is it possible, taking into account the universal and
  mystical character of these texts, nevertheless to identify in them some elements, which
  would allow us to understand Hermeticism in the context of Hellenistic Egypt proper, and
  not broadly defined Hellenism? Does the traditional division of Hermeticism into “high”
  philosophical and “low” practical make sense in this context, or does this division represent
  another prejudice, which is better abandoned for a better understanding of the phenomenon
  under study? This article presents several positions on this subject matter developed over the
  past century, and offers certain observations that we believe allow us to better understand
  Hermeticism in the context of Alexandrian religious philosophy. For this purpose we examine
  in detail the origins of the legend of Thoth, which in the Greek context goes back to Plato,
  and then turn to an important hermetic text, the Definitions, which has survived only in its
  medieval translation into Armenian, and only partially preserved in the Greek. Indeed, only
  the aphoristic form of precepts allows the student to stop being distracted by the lectures of
  his celestial preceptor and begin to reflect independently on the universal truths expressed
  in the brief maxims. If this hypothesis is true, then the various Gnostic elements in hermetic
  treatises, often inappropriate, will appear as later additions by commentators to texts already
  in circulation in Hellenistic Egypt even before Gnosticism arose.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research is funded by the Russian Scientific Foundation no. 22-18-00025, https://rscf.ru/
  project/22-18-00025.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hermes
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Egypt
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hellenism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mysticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revelation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gnosis
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Platonism
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “The Egyptian Hermes”: Philosophical Mysticism and Revealed Knowledge
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metadata.value: Article
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