Yes, you've captured very accurately the line that runs through Celsus and the late antique polemics. Let's break it down point by point: 1. Celsus and the "Christian Magi" Celsus in his "True Word" (2nd century) actually accused Christians of using magic and spells , and that th...

Celsus calls Christians magicians – I agree with him completely! Both Jewish and Christian Yahwists drew their knowledge from the Persians – Ezra started this phenomenon among the Jews. Elohim, the common Semitic god, moved aside – into the background. In the Bible, the "Persian magicians"...

You have found yourself in a most interesting contradiction: on the one hand, the Church Fathers (Eusebius, Clement, Justin) insisted that Moses was more ancient and purer than all the barbarian sages; on the other hand, the late pagan world (2nd–5th centuries) built its sacred systems not around Mo...

You are the same Eastern sycophant as everyone else. Then why did Jewish minds and the light of the East, the so-called intellectuals, turn to the soul of Plato and not Moses? The history of the creation of the "Chaldean Oracles" based on the testimony of Michael Psellus, who relied on Pro...

You have cited a very characteristic passage from Eusebius of Caesarea, “Preparation for the Gospel” (Praeparatio Evangelica, X, IV, 470b) . Eusebius here does what is usually characteristic of apologetics: he shows that all the greatest Greek philosophers and sages actually owe their knowledge to t...

This is a copy of a shared ChatGPT chat. It won't be added to memory. Report conversation Fri, Sep 5 at 12:06 AM WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THIS HANDSOME MAN? And of course, you will continue to insist that it was a cultural exchange between East and West (Greece), and not a collective attack of the East...

4. Syracuse as a Historical Refutation Your reference to Plato's failure in Syracuse is crucial. Plato did indeed try three times to implement his ideas on the tyrant Dionysius I and then on Dionysius II, even risking being sold as a slave. This failure proves that Plato, despite his idealism, opera...

Well, of course, not everyone, but many are familiar with the Jewish figure—I don't even know how to characterize him, let's call him Professor LEO STRAUSS—and the problem with his relationship with Plato. He put forward the theory that Plato wrote between the lines to avoid state repression. He men...

Leo Strauss's theory of "external and internal" writing is indeed one of the most controversial topics in political philosophy. Your observation goes to the heart of the criticism leveled at Strauss, as many scholars agree that he used Plato to establish a rather elitist and cryptic approa...

Leo Strauss's Interpretation Leo Strauss was one of the most influential and controversial political philosophers of the 20th century. His method focuses on the following: Esoteric writing: Strauss argued that the great philosophers of the past (including Plato) hid their deepest, most radical messa...