It is strange that it has occurred to none of these scholars that Macrobius's failure to mention Christianity and the fondness for pagan antiquities revealed in his works do not necessarily indicate that he was not a Christian at the time he wrote. Paganism died very slowly throughout the Empire. H. F. Stewart attributes the persistence of paganism in the fourth and fifth centuries to the belief in the eternal destiny of Rome and to the cult of the city; to the attractions of the worship of Cybele, Isis, Mithra, and Orpheus, with their emphasis upon immortality; to the stern traditions of Stoicism inculcated by Marcus Aurelius; to the lofty idealism of the Neoplatonists; and, above all, to the heavy hand of the training in rhetoric, which was exclusively pagan, in the schools and colleges.... (查看原文)
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0 有用 a dime 2022-10-01 01:40:21 广东
“整个哲学领域有三个分支——道德的、物质的和理性的。道德哲学是道德行为的最高完善的指南，物质哲学是关于神的秩序的物质部分，而理性哲学则讨论非物质的事物，即只有心灵才能理解的事物。因此，西塞罗把一切都包括在内。”M真的蛮有趣的，用C具象化了新柏拉图主义，用维吉尔具象化了自然哲学。
0 有用 illusion 2018-05-22 18:07:55
新柏拉图主义版本宇宙论，而且中世纪很流行…
0 有用 kiyo 2019-04-03 22:42:30
一口氣讀完了，很流暢，難得一遇的學習體驗