demiurge

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von demiurge im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch: hakim; demiurgos; Eflatun felsefesinde dünyayı yaratan etmen; kainatın yaratıcıs

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von demiurge im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Old Testament
For the rest, we meet in the Demiurge of the Valentinians all the traits of the world-god with which we have by now become familiar and can therefore deal here very briefly.; The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible world in the light of eternal ideas; Something (as an institution, idea, or individual) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power
that too was a gain in spiritual balance, provided the machine was not conceived as a demiurge that ruled all other human needs — Lewis Mumford.; The creator of a world, whether real or mythical; in some Gnostic systems: an inferior not absolutely intelligent deity who is the creator of the material world and is frequently identified with the creator God of the Old Testament; Subordinate god who shapes and arranges the physical world. In his dialogue Timaeus, Plato identified the Demiurge as the force that fashioned the world from the preexisting materials of chaos. In Gnosticism of the early Christian era, the Demiurge is regarded as an inferior deity who had created the imperfect, material world and who belonged to the forces of evil opposing the supreme God of goodness; in Platonism: the subordinate god who fashions the sensible world in the light of eternal ideas; In Platonism, the demiurge was the creator of the universe Although Plato did not see the demiurge as a specific deity, Medieval Christian scholars equated the demiurge with God; (3 syl ), in the language of Platonists, means that mysterious agent which made the world and all that it contains The Logos or Word spoken of by St John, in the first chapter of his gospel, is the Demiurgus of Platonising Christians In the Gnostic systems, Jehovah (as an eon or emanation of the Supreme Being) is the Demiurge "The power is not that of an absolute cause, but only a world-maker, a demiurge; and this does not answer to the human idea of deity " - Winchell: Science and Religion, chap x p 295 Demobilisation of troops The disorganisation of them, the disarming of them This is a French military term To "mobilise" troops is to render them liable to be moved on service out of their quarters; to "demobilise" them is to send them home, so that they cannot be moved from their quarters against anyone To change from a war to a peace footing; a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe; public craftsman" in Greek The name of the creator according to the philosophy of Plato; The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states; According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man; {i} judge in ancient Greece; Creator of the world (according to Platonic philosophy); God, as the Maker of the world