Sumpatheia. Gândire hermetică şi transdisciplinaritate
Sumpatheia. Hermetic Thought and Transdisciplinarity

Summary/Abstract: Ever since its beginning (ca 3rd century BC), the unique synthesis of ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern and Hellenistic spirituality and science which later (from the 1st century AD) came to be known as Hermetica stood out as a breeding ground for metaphysical and philosophical doctrines and scientific practices of Late Antiquity civilizations standing at the crossroads of major religious, philosophical and esoteric traditions. During the Hellenistic period, the ancient Egyptian god Thoth, famous, among other things, for his omniscience , has metamorphosed into a complex, Greco-Egyptian divine character, Hermes Trismegistos. As such he is said to convey to mankind knowledge of „the arts, the sciences and all the professions”. Even more, the particular intellectual feature of the technical Hermetica is emphasized in relation to conventional Greek and Roman science. The technical Hermetica was built on the disinterested investigation and classification of phenomena that had been the hallmark of Aristotelian science , to which it added a belief in those universal forces that at that time were uninvestigable yet believed of being turned to man’s advantage once the occult knowledge has been gained.

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