User:Apaugasma
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Hello, I'm Apaugasma. Welcome to my user page!
I am a devoted student of the history of ancient and medieval philosophy. If all is good, my day-to-day activities largely consist of doing
However, I have also wasted spent a lot of time contributing to Wikipedia, where the task is
For any queries, please feel free to contact me on my talk page (click 'Add topic' above).
Wikipedia is not always a toxic place. Here are some nice things Wikipedia editors have said to me.
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Just wanted to say thanksHey, just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to make Wikipedia better. You're the type of person that makes this site better. Thank you, friend! Much appreciate your help with the article. Rusdo (talk) 04:15, 28 April 2021 (UTC) ThanksI appreciate you spending time on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hitchens's razor, my AN/I concern, and my talk page a while back when you helped me to understand policy better. You seem very professional and kind, and I appreciate that you have pointed out my mistakes in a professional and kind way. MarshallKe (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2021 (UTC) Another thank-youI have long appreciated your good edits on a number of articles, so: thank you! You are careful and knowledgeable, you respect good scholarship, and you tactfully revert inappropriate edits. If you make changes to Pseudo-Democritus, please read Martelli first. I think his monograph on the subject concludes about as much as is reasonable to conclude from the available sources, and successfully dates this writer's work to ca. 60 AD. I know Martelli, and can vouch for his conscientious professional scholarship. Ajrocke (talk) 17:54, 27 August 2021 (UTC) Thank you very much!Hi, Apaugasma! Thank you very much for your kindness for how to contribute to Wikipedia. It was the first edit of Wikipedia for me, and I seem to have made a mistake, editing it. If you made a correction for my edit, I thank you so much! I have some things to do now, and would like to read about Pneuma (Stoic) and Stoic Physics later. I will not discuss it on the talk pages. Take care!Ruby2021 (talk) 16:16, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
A kitten for you!Sorry for all the crap you've been through lately. Kittens are always adorable; editors, less so. Levivich 17:17, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
Brill and Encyclopaedia of IslamAs a sometime follower of the ANI page I wanted to say thanks for the ANI explanation about Brill and the Encyclopaedia of Islam. It was a useful perspective to read. Gusfriend (talk) 12:03, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
A kitten for you!I'm giving you this kitten for your nice works in reverting bad-moves done by stupid-idiot-sockpuppets... ─ (talk) 06:03, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Απαυγασμα της δοχηςHi, nice to have met you recently at MOS:ARABIC. Today I saw this, thought of you, and learned a word! Hilf al FudhulThank you for the corrections and demands that you provided for this page. I tried to answer all your questions, and clarify what was requested. I do sincerly appreciate the way you contributed. RigOLuche (talk) 16:58, 22 November 2022 (UTC) Alchemy and beauty productsSorry, I meant to say beauty products, not beauty hopes. Thank you for catching that! :) Patissiereyumeiro (talk) 05:41, 7 December 2022 (UTC) Weird question...ever considered running? I believe you have handled the Theguywholearnhistory-Wareno case quite admirably. I've witnessed many disputes and conflicts on WP but I've scarcely seen an editor responding so concisely and skilfully before; in this case, I could not have responded better. You seem to have all the knowledge, experience and prowess to carry the mob, so why not give it a shot? Colonestarrice (talk) 03:25, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
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My contributions
I contribute to a great variety of articles, but the following have been largely or entirely (re)written by me:
Best articles: also known as: you might actually want to read some of those
Other articles: well, they're articles
Stubs: barely articles these
Article sections: not articles
- Hydrochloric acid#History (excluding subsections)
- Sabians (lead)
- Science in the medieval Islamic world#Alchemy and chemistry
Templates: definitely not articles
I have also written an essay arguing that, contrary to a widespread rumor among experienced editors,
Explanation of my user name
The following is merely meant as an explanation of my user name, for those who are interested. It is not a Wikipedia article, and it is not based on any sources other than my own investigations of historical philosophical texts. However, it does give a good picture of where my general interests lie, and on what kind of subjects you might find me contributing to Wikipedia.
Apaugasma (ἀπαύγασμα) is an ancient Greek word derived from apō (ἀπό, meaning "from") and augē (αὐγή, meaning, a.o., "sunlight", "bright light", "brightness", "gleam"; also, "dawn") or augazō (αὐγάζω, meaning, a.o., "illumine", "shine", "reflect"), combined with the suffix -ma (-μα, denoting the result or the product of something). Thus, it means something like 'what results from bright light', i.e., "a portion of bright light", "a gleam of light" (cf. LSJ: "radiance", "effulgence", "light beaming from a luminous body"), or "a reflection".
It is perhaps most famous for its appearance in the New Testament book Hebrews (second half of first century CE) 1:3 "He [sc. Christ] is the reflection [apaugasma] of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word [...]" (tr. NRSV).
However, it was first used in the apocryphal Bible book Wisdom of Solomon (c. 100 BCE – 100 CE) 7:26 "For she [sc. the world-creating Wisdom, Greek sophia] is a reflection [apaugasma] of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness" (tr. NRSV).
It was also used several times by the Jewish philosopher
While some Platonizing elements are clearly present (i.e., the identification of the divine with an eternal light, of which all other things are only reflections, images, or impressions), these seem to be understood within the materialist theoretical framework of Stoic physics, in which both the light and the reflections become corporeal substances. What appears to be at play here is the Stoic idea that the human soul is a detached particle (Gr. apospasma) of the world-creating (i.e., demiurgical or craftsman-like), divine, all-pervading, ethereal (i.e., very thin and fine, like the aithēr or "upper air") but still corporeal, active cause or "nature" (phusis), which was fire according to Zeno of Citium, heat or flame (flox) according to Cleanthes, pneuma ("breath", "spirit") or augē ("gleam") according to Chrysippus, and a corporeal logos (a.o., "proportion", "ratio", "rational discourse", "reason", "word") according to all Stoic philosophers.
In the scriptural sources (Wisdom of Solomon and Hebrews), this Stoic conceptualization was assimilated to the pre-existing Biblical notion of the divine spirit. However, in the Biblical view, the divine spirit is not identical to God (as it is in the Stoic view), but rather proceeds from God as His word or breath, and is granted only to the pious (see, e.g., Isaiah 11:2). As a consequence, the world-creating principle of the scriptural sources (Lady Wisdom, or the Spirit of Christ) has itself become an apaugasma (from the eternal light of God Himself), and is not an individual soul but rather a kind of 'super-soul' which would descend only on devout believers. Philo, by contrast, in a way stayed closer to the Stoic concept by identifying the divine spirit directly with the rational soul which God has breathed into every human being, though for him this divine in-breathed spirit was not a portion of the light of God Himself, but rather from His creative Word.
The Stoic concept of a subtle but corporeal world-creating principle which is the active cause informing and holding together all material things (and also, though much less often, the idea that the human soul is itself an apaugasma of that luminous active principle) was picked up by some
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