Demiurge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The (usually benevolent) being that created the universe out of primal matter.

   “A demiurge or craftsman god takes pre-existing matter and fashions it in light of the eternal Forms.”

2. isim A (usually jealous or outright malevolent) being who is inferior to the supreme being, and sometimes seen as the creator of evil.

   “This was the earnest attempt of a Christian to explain in some detail how God might act using natural law, although his critics noted that such a Creator had more in common with a gnostic demiurge than the transcendent God of the Judeo-Christian tradition.”

3. isim Something (such as an idea, individual or institution) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power.

   “An abiding tradition depicted the sage-kings of yore as demiurges who invented useful technologies to advance the progress of civilization. For example, Shun was acclaimed by the philosopher Mozi (circa late fifth century BCE) for teaching farming, pottery, and fishing to his subjects.”

4. isim The title of a magistrate in a number of states of Ancient Greece, and in the city states (poleis) of the Achaean League.
5. özel isim The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible world in the light of eternal ideas.
6. özel isim A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible.

   “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”