| Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary 3,911,452,352 visitors served. |
Dictionary/ thesaurus | Medical dictionary | Legal dictionary | Financial dictionary | Acronyms | Idioms | Encyclopedia | Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
Demiurge |
Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Legal | 0.01 sec. |
|
|
demiurge (dĕm`ēûrj') [Gr.,=workman, craftsman], name given by Plato in a mythological passage in the Timaeus to the creator God. In Gnosticism Gnosticism , dualistic religious and philosophical movement of the late Hellenistic and early Christian eras. The term designates a wide assortment of sects, numerous by the 2d cent. A.D.
..... Click the link for more information. the Demiurge, creator of the material world, was not God but the Archon, or chief of the lowest order of spirits or aeons. According to the Gnostics, the Demiurge was able to endow man only with psyche (sensuous soul)—the pneuma (rational soul) having been added by God. The Gnostics identified the Demiurge with the Jehovah of the Hebrews. In philosophy the term is used to denote a divinity who is the builder of the universe rather than its creator. DemiurgeSubordinate 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. Demiurge the term denoting, in philosophy, the creator of any source; and in theology, god, or the creator of the world. In ancient Greece its chief meaning was social: demiourgoi were the craftmen and merchants in the population, as opposed to the landowning elite (eupatridae), the farmers (geomoroi), and the people involved in free professions, such as doctors, poets, and singers. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
|
| Mentioned in | ? | References in periodicals archive | ? | Encyclopedia browser | ? | Full browser | ? | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No references found | 5) Salvation requires the recognition that we are better than the situation into which we have been cast, and "The goal of gnostic striving is the release of the 'inner man' from the bonds of [the] world and his return to his native realm of light"--often entailing "intentional violation of the demiurgical norms"; that is, the natural laws of a wicked creation. This is especially true as the magic machine of cinema--the animatic apparatus--would increasingly displace and replace the human hand of the magician with its own mechanical prosthetic and demiurgical "hand," making the human magician its supernumerary, its "sorcerers apprentice," a sleight/slight of hand, the "handiwork" of the ghost writer/drawer in the machine of the cryptographic, hauntological apparatus, apparatus of legerdemain, of prestidigitation, of duplicity--of evil. |
demiurgical |
demisting demists Demisuit demit demit demitasse demitasses Demitint Demiton Demiton Demitone Demitri Mendeleev demits demits demitted demitted demitting demitting Demiurg Demiurg demiurge demiurge demiurge demiurgeous demiurgeous demiurges demiurges demiurgic demiurgic demiurgic demiurgical demiurgicallydemiurgically demiurgism Demiurgus Demiurgus demiveg demivierge Demivill Demivolt Demiwolf demiworld Demjanov rearrangement Demjanow desamination DEMK DEMKO DEML DEMLP DEMM Demmeni, Evgenii Demmeni, Evgenii Sergeevich DEMMX DEMN Demna Konstantinovich Shengelaia Demna Shengelaia Demne | |||||||
| Encyclopedia |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Free toolbar & extensions |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup |
|---|