The World Is a Body/The World Is a Corpse. A Double(t) Take on Plato’s Cosmos in the Gospel of Thomas, Sayings 80 and 56
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Abstract
The essay offers an interpretation of sayings 80 and 56 in the Gospel of Thomas drawing upon Middle Platonic ideas about “the world.µ The two sayings do not mean the same thing, but offer two contrasting views of the world to be held in tension.
Keywords
- Gospel of Thomas - Platonism - the World - Thomas 56 - Thomas 80
