The Charismatic Leader in the Late Antiquity Biographized by the Follower. The Cases of the Life of Plotinus by Porphyry of Tyre and the Life of Chrysanthius by Eunapius of Sardis
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Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : This article is an attempt to analyze the Neoplatonic masters Plotinus and Chrysanthius of Sardis as charismatic leaders of their own higher education communities according to the biographies written by their most distinguished disciples Porphyry of Tyre and Eunapius of Sardis. For that purpose the Weberian concept of charisma is used and applied, firstly, to the intimate master-disciple relationship as the driving force behind the writing of the aforementioned texts and, secondly, to a comparative study of both sages under five performance categories of the figure of the divine man, in which our protagonists are included, such as the social, the political, the ascetic, the supernatural and the mystical categories.
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This article is an attempt to analyze the Neoplatonic masters Plotinus and Chrysanthius of Sardis as charismatic leaders of their own higher education communities according to the biographies written by their most distinguished disciples Porphyry of Tyre and Eunapius of Sardis. For that purpose the Weberian concept of charisma is used and applied, firstly, to the intimate master-disciple relationship as the driving force behind the writing of the aforementioned texts and, secondly, to a comparative study of both sages under five performance categories of the figure of the divine man, in which our protagonists are included, such as the social, the political, the ascetic, the supernatural and the mystical categories.
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