#  Video: Eranos Conference 2023, "Ideas and Influences on Eros" 

 





June 14, 2023

 

 

 Professor Charles Stang, CSWR Director delivered a lecture entitled, **“Apophasis and Angelology: Henry Corbin’s Neoplatonism”** at the 2023 Eranos conference in Switzerland.

 *“This is not merely a minor chapter in the history of ideas, but rather a case study in how Neoplatonism has come to serve as a perennial source, or resource, for the reification of modern thought. … Throughout his work \[Corbin\] champions the Platonic tradition, over against what he perceives to be the deadening influence of Aristotelianism, Sunni orthodoxy, and modern materialism, secularism, and historicism. For Corbin, Plato – or Aflatûn as he is known in Arabic – is the sage whose name stands for what is most worth preserving in the philosophical tradition, especially when wed to the prophetology of the Abrahamic traditions, or ‘peoples of the book.’”*



 



 

 

 



 

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