Well, I suposse it is not a big mistake because Gnosticism draws many in the neo-platonism
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> I kind of thought of the Malkionic view is sort of like classical
> Neoplatonism (with its many variations) rather than Gnosticism. Plotinus is
> plenty weird, if your players incline that way, and it's a great way to
> break the "all Gloranthan Mysticism is sort of like a mishmash of Buddhist
> ideas that sometimes gets floated.
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> I've been listening to Peter Adamson's podcast -- The History of Philosophy
> (without Any Gaps) (http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/) (also iTumes) --
> he's a philosophy professor that records a very listenable but
> content-heavy series of episodes tracing the development of Western
> Philosophy from Thales to the present day. He's getting toward the end of
> year 3, and has completed the Ancient West, and is now looking at Islamic
> Medieval Philosophy before jumping to the European Middle Ages. There is a
> ton of great ideas in this podcast that will easily fit into many different
> Gloranthan cultures with scarcely any editing -- the Mostali could take on
> Zeno's ideas about time, I could imagine some of Heraclitus going well in
> Dara Happa, the Lunars could have both Skeptics and Stoics, and so on.
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