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The One and the Many has been one of the great themes of theology, philosophy and mysticism, across a huge and very diverse range of cultures and traditions. The search for an ultimate unity – effected through a single unifying material, idea or agent – behind a world of phenomena was at the heart of Pre-Socratic and Platonic thought, and it has been central to Neo-Platonism and its Jewish, Christian and Islamic permutations from late antiquity onwards. It is similarly important to the Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist traditions.
This conference takes a comparativist approach to the matter and explores examples from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theological and philosophical literature, as well as from Ancient Egyptian, Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist texts. Its aim is to arrive at a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between the arguments typically put forward in those traditions and the objectives that inform them.
Co-organizers: Professor Bernhard Maier (Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft und Europäische Religionsgeschichte, Universität Tübingen) and Professor Joachim Schaper (Chair of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, University of Aberdeen) and jointly funded by the Universities of Tübingen and Aberdeen.
Please register using the below links.
Online:
https://forms.office.com/e/tw3CubE67K
On-campus:
https://forms.office.com/e/bXqLeAe5AT
Please send any queries to Professor Joachim Schaper: j.schaper@abdn.ac.uk.