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>the ancient sceptics were secretly Platonists who used scepticism to deconstruct all other philosophies while hiding their real doctrines from the unwashed masses
was Augustine a schizo?

>> No.19900543

>>19900537
no, that's pretty much correct

>> No.19900544

>>19900537
I feel like seeking out hidden meanings in shit is just part and parcel of Neoplatonism.

>> No.19900564

>>19900537
Augustine was a retard who got scared by the truths of manichaeism and spent the rest of his life coping

>> No.19900598

>>19900564
>muh satanic light particles
how is manichaeism not a garden-variety mystery cult

>> No.19900621

>>19900598
>a garden-variety mystery cult
This applies to christianity as well, you can trivialize anything

>> No.19901052

>>19900537
Augustine assessment is correct.
They were highly esoteric and secretive, and the link between skeptics and middle academia had been recognized since. Neoplatonists were complete schizos.

>>19900621
t. has never read Augustine, let alone Irenaeus.

>> No.19901891

>>19900537
Platonists are just Pythagoreans.

>> No.19902028

>>19900537
Plato's academy was literally the home of academic skepticism.

>> No.19902118

>>19900537
He was absolutely right.

>> No.19902233

>>19901052
>Iranaeus
KEK
The hallmark of a brainlet is when they bring up this absolute retard as if he were an authoritative source. Iranaeus was fucking clueless about everything, cope and seethe about it all you want but it's true.

>> No.19902840

>>19901052
>Irenaeus.
Now that's a man greater than life

>> No.19902878
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>>19901052
>Neoplatonists were complete schizos.
>i'm going to steal their theology anyway
What was his fucking problem?

>> No.19902881

>>19901052
Well said

>> No.19902900

>>19900537
Kind of funny to accuse the Greeks of being allegorical when christers have to do this in order to make Jesus somehow fulfill the seething soothsaying in Daniel against Basileus Antiochus Epiphanes, among other ridiculous stretches of interpretation