The hyperuranion
[Katherine Murphy, Richard Todd, ]
"A Man Very Well Studyed": New Contexts for Thomas Browne"
', BRILL, 2008, p. 260. or topos hyperuranios (,
[Plato, '' Phaedrus'', 247b–c.] of ὑπερουράνιος τόπος, "place beyond heaven"), which is also called Platonic realm, is a place in
heaven
Heaven, or the Heavens, is a common Religious cosmology, religious cosmological or supernatural place where beings such as deity, deities, angels, souls, saints, or Veneration of the dead, venerated ancestors are said to originate, be throne, ...
where all ideas of real things are collected together. As a perfect realm of
Forms,
the hyperuranion is within Plato's view that the idea of a phenomenon is beyond the realm of real phenomena and that everything we experience in our lives is merely a copy of a perfect model. It is described as higher than the gods since their
divinity depended on the knowledge of the hyperuranion beings.
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The hyperuranion doctrine is also a later ]medieval
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ...
concept that claims God within the Empyrean exists outside of heaven and controls it as the prime mover from there for heaven even to be a part of the moved.
See also
* Popper's three worlds
* Third Realm (Frege)
* Mshunia Kushta in Mandaeism
References
Platonism
Conceptions of heaven
Heaven
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