/lit/ - Literature

>>16320663
The arguments are original (or rather re-discovered, but we can't know that since we only have the myths , like they Stoics they established all the arguments that scholastics (poorly) used. A difference here is that the Hellenic philosophers are the oldest extant texts with these transcendental ideas.
And thanks for affirming the ancient platonic tradition (a thing is not its name) that extends beyond Abraham, even older than Noah going by your retarded chronology.

>>16020869
Neoplatonis Around 500+ AD
>Let us now come to the third problem in our discussion, or rather, to the third principle of all things. It would seem that there is something from this [third] principle that pertains to the two first principles. Let us by all means investigate the Unified, which we have always ranked as third, and inquire what it is, why we rank it third, as well as why Plato and the other Platonists designate it as “the mixed,” as did Philolaus even earlier, in addition to other the Pythagoreans. It is not only for the reason that Philolaus [specifies] that Being is the concretization of the limited and the unlimited but also because [the Platonists] placed the third principle after the monad and the indefinite dyad as the unified triad. But everything that is Unified is mixed, since in fact the Unified is a trace of the one and the many. Therefore, we must inquire from which [principles] it is mixed. As Orpheus says: “Then great Chronos fashioned the shining egg with the divine aether,”