Hyperuranion

{{Short description|Place in heaven in Greek philosophy}}

{{Platonism}}

The hyperuranionKatherine Murphy, Richard Todd, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DnpqhiPB-2IC&pg=PA260 "A Man Very Well Studyed": New Contexts for Thomas Browne"], BRILL, 2008, p. 260. or topos hyperuraniosEgidius Schmalzriedt, Platon – Der Schriftsteller und die Wahrheit, R. Piper, 1969, pp. 317, 319, 329. ({{langx|grc|ὑπερουράνιον τόπον}},Plato, Phaedrus, 247b–c.{{Cite book|title=Socrates in the Cave: On the Philosopher's Motive in Plato|last1=Diduch|first1=Paul|last2=Harding|first2=Michael|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2018|isbn=9783319768304|location=New York|pages=82}} accusative of ὑπερουράνιος τόπος, "place beyond heaven"), which is also called Platonic realm, is a place in heaven where all ideas of real things are collected together.{{Cite book|title=From Semiotics towards Philosophical Metaphysics|last=Solomonick|first=Abraham|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2017|isbn=9781443886451|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|pages=28}} 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.{{Cite book |last=Heilman |first=Elizabeth |url=https://archive.org/details/criticalperspect00heil |title=Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter |publisher=Routledge |year=2009 |isbn=978-0203892817 |location=New York |pages=43 |url-access=limited}} It is described as higher than the gods since their divinity depended on the knowledge of the hyperuranion beings.

The hyperuranion doctrine is also a later medieval 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. The French alchemist Jean d'Espagnet rejected the idea of hyperuranion in his work Enchiridion, where he maintained that nature is not divided into conceptual categories but exists in unity.{{Cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=Katherine |url=https://archive.org/details/manverywellstudy00murp |title="A Man Very Well Studyed": New Contexts for Thomas Browne |last2=Todd |first2=Richard |publisher=BRILL |year=2008 |isbn=9789004171732 |location=Leiden |pages=260 |url-access=limited}}