How To Use Daimon In A Sentence

  • Satan," in Greek "daimon" because he is a spiritual being possessed of extraordinary powers, also "diabolos," because he is a calumniator who accuses those whom he has deceived with false sin, the being whom Augustine said possesses intelligent reasons for what he urges others to do. THE IRATE NATION
  • Baudelaire's mystical vision, especially in the analogy to the cat as sign and symbol of the daimon, leads to a sense that ecstasy is possible when the self is aware of its own limitations and seeks to go beyond them.
  • On the other hand, in the past few years I've also grown increasingly attached to the daimonic theory of consciousness, which invokes in quasi-metaphorical fashion the ancient idea of the daimon or personal genius, the accompanying spirit that houses a person's deep character, life, pattern, and destiny. Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network
  • Psyche has loosed herself from the fettering contact of Daimon, and lo, now, how daintily she poises on tiptoe, fluttering her wings ere she launches like a star into the wide exhilarant ether! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
  • In classical eudaimonism, happiness was usually identified with virtuous activity. Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
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  • Satan, to the diabolus (“adversary”), and to daimones and daimonia. DEMONOLOGY
  • Both Philo and Plutarch (De defectu oraculorum) anticipate the Christian Apologist Justin Martyr in explaining pagan myth, ritual, and oracles as the ac - tions of daimones, but Justin's interpretation of them as deceits of the fallen angels and their offspring demons (Dialogue with Trypho, A.D. 155) is the back - ground for Saint Augustine's treatment of the pagan gods in The City of God, Books 1-X. DEMONOLOGY
  • Aristotle talked about "eudaimonia" ? happiness as human flourishing and purpose to life ? rather than the modern hedonistic concept. David Cameron aims to make happiness the new GDP
  • There were spirits (in Greek daimones) and spiritual beings like Socrates's mysterious voice (daimonion) (Apology, 31d1-4, 40a2-c3). Religion and Morality
  • Some experts say Aristotle meant "well-being" when he wrote that humans can attain eudaimonia by fulfilling their potential.
  • We follow that inner voice, that angel-like soul (that daimon, as Plato called it) - or, stifled, we can become demonic.
  • Can you discuss Aristotle's concept of "eudaimonia"... Archive 2006-06-01
  • CHORUS: From him alone of all the daimones Persuasion stands aloof. Archive 2006-04-01
  • But the idea that Socrates introduced a ‘new god’ was probably a reference to his daimon, an internal individual guiding spirit which he claimed always stopped him when he was about to do something wrong.
  • To conjure your "daimon" or consult your "genius" is comparably to enter into that dialogue which constitutes self-consciousness for Post-Secular Conviviality
  • He then names the supreme good as eudaimonia , which is usually translated , though inadequately, as happiness.
  • Thanks to the daimon who kept him from swallowing Reformist preaching in his youth, future readers will never view him as a convert.
  • The feline presence enables the poet to use the words of his poems as a ritual of daimonic self-reflection that is a kind of satanic Black Mass with three parts moving from devotion to eroticism to mysticism.
  • The personality is the vehicle of the daimon, which is not confined within the limit of the personality, and for which the birth and death of the personality are of no importance. Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
  • At the same time, they ascribed to the spiritualized Ideas which they called daimones (spirits) all actuality, intelligence, and force in the whole universe. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • They are called daimones, from their knowledge, and yet they are diaboloi, from their malice, devils still. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
  • Nussbaum writes this about "eudaimonia" in 'The Fragility of Goodness': "Some texts we shall discuss are rendered obscure on this point by the common translation of Greek 'eudaimonia' by English 'happiness'. What do I mean by 'emotional intelligence'?
  • In the book, I talk about how important this - it's a term known as "eudaimonia," which is a state of fulfilling your authentic happiness. WALL STREET FIGHTER - Business News and Money Tips for Men
  • In preparation for that decision the daimonic devotee repaired to the great shrine of his faith, at Bayreuth, in Northern Bavaria. ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM
  • The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both. Archive 2008-05-01
  • * Estin ethnos Ioudaion legomenon, hoi polin ochuran kai megalen echontes Ierosoluma, tauten hupereidon hupo Ptolemaio genomenen, hopla labein ou thelesantes, alla dia ten akairon desidaimonian chalepon hupemeinan echein despoten. A Grammar of Septuagint Greek
  • The discovery that his daimon was female not only enlarged Yeats's understanding of temporal and spiritual reality but also radically transformed his interpretation of the aesthetic process.
  • Ptolemaio genomenen, hopla labein ou thelesantes, alla dia ten akairon desidaimonian chalepon hupemeinan echein despoten. A Grammar of Septuagint Greek
  • Meanwhile, the ‘moral’ issues at stake have to do with Baudelaire's revision of the sacred as being a daimonic capacity for understanding the self and its relationship to others.
  • Iamblichus also stressed that theurgists usually worked with lesser divinities - heroes, daimons and angels - and only the greatest of all, in exceptional circumstances, would trouble actual deities.
  • A daimon is a divine sign given to an individual (Phaedrus, 242B) or it is DEMONOLOGY
  • The creativity of the poet's daimonic reflections can be especially appreciated in his predilection for the adjective ‘mystique.’
  • Farmer Daimon : I'll kill him.
  • There is a being called a daimon who is either identical with theos or is the power or agency of theos (Homer). DEMONOLOGY
  • Sarah sighs briefly, shaking her head and watching Daimon.
  • Meeks' own concluding essay, The Christian Proteus, reminds us of the shape-changing aspect of Paul, a daimon who questions us just when we think we are questioning him.
  • It may be remarked that the name of Daeva is an instance of that change from a good to a bad sense which is seen in the case of the Greek word daimon. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • Seeing sal with the new girl makes me want to call daimon and apologize. I-claudius Diary Entry
  • And going back just a little earlier, Aristotle, the co-founder of Western philosophy along with Plato, gave lectures on ethics which described the goal of human life as what he called eudaimonia, that is to say, happiness or human fulfilment. Integral Options Cafe
  • We have to know from ourself, there are certain state of mind that are conducive to this flourishing, to this well-being, what the Greeks called eudaimonia, flourishing. Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness
  • Hence, the hitherto morally ambivalent or neutral word daimon acquires an almost exclusively evil connotation in the monotheistic context. DEMONOLOGY
  • [1775] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • Walter Jon Williams penned an interesting novel called Aristoi, wherein he taps the idea that we possess fragments of other personalities locked away inside our brains; he called them daimones. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Ann Aguirre, Part 1
  • Like the daimon of Socrates who indicates only what not to do, we too know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended.
  • Yet the resemblances of drama to ritual, verse to spells, and inspiration to shamanism also show literature imitating magical operations that are essentially dynamistic and daimonic.
  • Even more it was a mark of divine favor, for the gods, it was believed, worked through the daimones, emissaries and conductors of their will.
  • In any case, such would already be the ideal whenever daimonic love is suppressed.
  • However, what I really have in mind is something Ancient, and is really captured by terms like 'virtue' and 'wisdom' and (perhaps most of all) "eudaimonia"; and the thinkers I am leaning on are first, Alasdair MacIntyre, and second, Martha Nussbaum (and behind them both lies Aristotle). What do I mean by 'emotional intelligence'?
  • Larsen: People who are really creative do use the term affliction, because it is like a daimon that has hold of you and it's where your energy comes from. Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND
  • [4] Ti oun oudeis daimon onomazei ton Theon? ouchi hoi daimonizomenoi elegon oidamen se tis hei ho huios tou Theou? ouchi Paulo elegon, houtoi hoi anthropoi douloi tou Theou tou hupsistou eisin? alla mastizomenoi, all 'anankazomenoi, hekontes de kai me mastigoumenoi, oudamnou. Pneumatologia
  • Supposing, just for a second, that we take these metaphors literally; what we would basically be saying is that God -- that Supreme Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient -- is the real evil, while Lucifer and Christ were both good guys, both trying but failing to wake humanity up to its daimonic -- which is to say divine -- potential. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE
  • This alone leads to that "eudaimonia" or happiness for which man strives. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
  • Milton's admirable economy in working this truth into his great poem (i. 378) affords a sublime exposition of the mind of the Fathers on the origin of mythologies.] [1774] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • Harpur argues that ‘the classic grey alien seems to have taken the place of the daimonic entities that have always stalked the world.’
  • In equating biblical angelos with daimones and in peopling the upper divisions of the universe with spirits, Philo anticipates the subsequent adaptation of DEMONOLOGY
  • Daimon rapped on the cold glass and fogged it with her breath.
  • A beautiful pose done by the leading onnagata actor in a few dances or in the koroshiba scene of some jidaimono dramas. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • He has no altar, and no hymns of praise; from him alone of all the daimones Persuasion stands aloof … [closes the book] ... Nowhere Town: Overture and Introduction
  • The Latin equivalent of daimon is genius, the spirit double that is born and dies with a man and influences his conduct.
  • Embrace your unborn daimonic creativity -- no matter how young, primitive or ill-formed it is, let it speak, dance, cry, and spit up. Alison Rose Levy: Stressed this Political Season?
  • It was his daimon who intervened in the Phaedrus, after Socrates had argued that it was better for a boy to yield to a man who did not love him than to a lover.
  • But the fact that aliha is probably not an independent verbal stem but only a denominative from ilah, signifying originally "possessed of God" (cf. enthousiazein, daimonan) renders the explanation more than precarious. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • Soteros epiphaneias, ton proi, hon egrapsen ho Markos eipon (ho kai meta diastoles anagnosteon) anastas de; eita hupostixantes, to hexes rheteon, proi te mia tou sabbatou ephane Maria te Magdalene, aph 'hes ekbeblhukei hepta daimonia. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
  • The Consolation of Philosophy, a treatise by a 6th-century theologian, Boethius, includes a classic statement of one strand of Christian eudaimonism. Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
  • [529] The phrasing of Mark iii. 14 (epoiēsen dōdeka hina ōsin met 'autou kai hina apostellē autous kērussein kai echein exousian ekballein ta daimonia) corresponds to the original facts of the case. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
  • Left, a Sagalassos city coin dating to the early third century A.D. and representing a Tyche (Fortuna) holding a cornucopia (right) crowning a cuirassed and helmeted soldier (left), identified as "Lakedaimon of the Sagalassians. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Small Finds Conservation Report 4
  • But in my own case it's not so much fear of the unknown that drives me as it is a sense of numinous uncanniness, verging into Rudolf Otto's "daemonic dread," at the very fact of existence itself -- which, crucially, includes not just the disenchanted world of physical nature that's visible to empirical science but the world of immediate, first-person experience with all of its daimonic psychological oddities. Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network
  • Patristic and medieval Christian theologians adopted but transformed philosophical eudaimonism by identifying happiness with post-mortem bliss: the beatific vision, or union with God. Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
  • Baudelaire the poet has a special daimonic vision insofar as the poet has insight into the daimon described by Hesiod as unseen by the one being influenced.
  • * Ti oun oudeis daimon onomazei ton Theon? ouchi hoi daimonizomenoi elegon oidamen se tis hei ho huios tou Theou? ouchi Paulo elegon, houtoi hoi anthropoi douloi tou Theou tou hupsistou eisin? alla mastizomenoi, all 'anankazomenoi, hekontes de kai me mastigoumenoi, oudamnou. Pneumatologia

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