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Arrheton - Unspeakable in the Greek Mystery Cults

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Bielawski K.

Filozofia Chrześcijańska

2016

vol. 13

37-52

The paper presents meaning and use of two technical words important for understanding and interpretation of the ancient mystery cults and mystical experience of ancient Greeks: arrheton and aporrheton – “unspeakable” and “forbidden”. The introduction contains general guidelines of so called “Greek religion” with its focus on performance and ritual and describes the rôle of mystery cults in the frame of this adogmatic religious system. The paper explains lexicography of the crucial terms, including etymology, ancient vocabularies and grammar and then turns to the catalogue and interpretation of the most important literary and epigraphical evidence on the use and meaning of arrheton in the Greek culture. The catalogue contains Aristotle, Xenophon, Herodotus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles, Apuleius and Derveni Papyrus as well as early Christian writers.

The idea of philosophical initiation and purification in Gorgias, Phaedo, Phaedrus and Symphosium of Plato

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Pawłowski K.

Studia Philosophiae Christianae

2016

vol. 52

issue 1

77-97

The paper explores Plato’s idea of philosophical initiation and purification in Gorgias (in the context of people’s moral condition and ethical ideals they believe), and in some other dialogues of Plato (Phaedo, Phaedrus, and Symposium), in which Socrates refers to acts of initiation and purification, probably ones similar to the initiation into Greek mysteries. The essence and culmination of such initiation was marked by spiritual experience of the divinity of human soul. Similar subject matter may be found in some Socratic dialogues.

Artykuł przedstawia platoński motyw wtajemniczeń i oczyszczeń w Gorgiaszu (w kontekście dyskusji na temat moralnej kondycji ludzi i wyznawanych przez nich ideałów etycznych) oraz w innych dialogach (Fedonie, Fajdrosie, Uczcie), w których Sokrates powołuje się na wtajemniczenia, podobne prawdopodobnie do tych, które były udziałem wtajemniczanych w misteria greckie, których kulminacją było egzystencjalne przeżycie tajemnicy boskości ludzkiej duszy. Podobne nastroje odnajdujemy w dialogach Platona.

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1 Filozofia Chrześcijańska

1 Studia Philosophiae Christianae

2 2016

1 Bielawski K.

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Arrheton - Unspeakable in the Greek Mystery Cults

The idea of philosophical initiation and purification in Gorgias, Phaedo, Phaedrus and Symphosium of Plato