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Moses Atticizing

“For what is Plato, but Moses atticizing?” —Numenius
τί γάρ ἐστι Πλάτων ἢ Μωσῆς ἀττικίζων;

Posts tagged as «Knowledge of God»

Conor tries his hand as a commentator. He begins with the first chapter of 5.1

How does the intellect (νοῦς) know God, yet how is God incomprehensible to the intellect? A close study on Maximus the Confessor’s Ambiguum 22, where Maximus adopts an Aristotelian and (pseudo-)Dionysian framework in describing how one does—and doesn’t—know God.