Theology
Summary
- Among the patricians there were many views on religious aspects.
- Tired: gods are fake/just dead people, except the stars (euhemerism)
- Euhemerus thought gods were men who lived earlier. Philosopher Panaetius, who was sceptic in religious views, was close to Scipio Aemilianus who carried on with religious traditions.
- Wired: gods are the elements, but also the elements are alive. And there are invisible god people (stoicism)
- Divinely inspired: Gods are hyperessential(=transcending substance and time) henadic(=units of being) hypostases(=underlying entities) emanating a seira(=chain [of manifestations]) (neoplatonism)" - KM
- A good reference for platonism is V’s pages.