Zsofia Arik: Another attempt to create divine space and time: static and dinamic cosmologies

Zsofia Arik: Another attempt to create divine space and time: static and dinamic cosmologies

I research in Plato’s later dialogues, more precisely in the Timaeus, Laws and Philebus the patterns of the creation of the World, the meaning of the creation, the possible relation between the creation with the greek word:’gignomai’ and being: ’einai.

The cosmological model of the World - creation implies the creation of the World as an ideal community, so these are paralel patterns, which could be reflected or projected on each other – that’s what I am searching for: the way how could a divine pattern be realised on Earth and on the other hand how could a life and pattern of a society fit to the divine matrix or model? And in general if we take the sacred geometry, or a melody or some astronomical truth or belief how could that divine model be realised in a particular way?

What is the role of the ’Demiurge’ in this greek creation theory? What is the role of the ’Paradeigm’, the model or pattern of creation? What is the possible causation, time-.space or logical relation between the Paradeigm and the Creation or the Paradeigm and the matter of creation? They are paralel realities, or one of these factors are predecessors of the other, in terms of logic, or in space or in time a previous factor or phase in creation? What possible theological connotations exists of the creation after a divine model, ’eikon’, how this could be reflected with the incarnation of the logos in different theologies? In this demiurge-type creation theory, what creation theory motives we can find which could be related with other semita mithologies from the middle-east? What is the relation between Paradeigm and eikon, they both refer to perfect patterns, but how they relate with the logos theories? What relevance it has to the recent process theological thought? Or on the reverse: how this type of creation theory could be understood in the light of process philosophy and process theology?

What is the notion or concept of nature in Plato or in Whitehead’s process philosophy?
Why is it so important how to define the world we are living in, to define it with a static or dinamic notion of nature, creation? a static or dinamic cosmology or creation theory? To understand it through different channels, it’s like looking through different lenses, the picture is changing. How can this world change to be a sacred and divine nature we need to protect and safe? How can this World be transformed to be divine and take it as a holy land again? Why is it so important to take it like this from the aspect of eco philosophy?

In my paper i am searching possible answers to these questions, knowing that it is never possible to find ultimate answers just possible ones, and we need to take them like this, the answers just forming a fruitful base for the next uprising questions.






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