The Platonic Tradition Peter Kreeft Pdf -

As C.S. Lewis (a devotee of the Platonic tradition) argued, our unsatisfied desires point to another world.

As Kreeft himself says, quoting Plato: "We must fly away from earth to heaven as fast as we can. And to fly is to become like God." the platonic tradition peter kreeft pdf

Kreeft proposes that there is an unbroken chain of thinkers—a "tradition"—who saw reality not as purely material but as a reflection of higher, eternal Forms or Ideas. This tradition begins with Plato, flows through Plotinus (Neoplatonism), is baptized by St. Augustine, systematized by Pseudo-Dionysius, harmonized by Boethius, and reaches its theological zenith in St. Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics. flows through Plotinus (Neoplatonism)