Philo of Alexandria and Philosophical Discourse / Lutz Doering, Michael Cover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doering, Lutz, author.

Cover, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy.

Philo, of Alexandria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages)

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024.

Summary:

"Greek authors likened "philosophical discourse" in the Hellenistic and Roman eras to an orchard. Logic, physics, and ethics served as the orchard walls, the trees, and the fruit of this enterprise. In a similar manner, this collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars and devoted to Philo of Alexandria's fashioning of a new Jewish philosophical discourse, harvests the fruits of many disciplines - including the study of Ancient Judaism and History of Religions, Ancient Philosophy, and the Classics - and brings them to bear on one of the Roman period's most prolific and creative Jewish thinkers and public figures. Essays treat Philo's relationship to the varied schools of philosophy: Socratic thought, Pyrrhonism, Epicureanism, Pythagoreism, Stoicism, and Middle Platonism all played a role in the seedbed of Philo's orchard. The volume also includes a new catalogue of Philo's library and a study of Philo's reception in Christian philosophical discourse." --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Philo of Alexandria and philosophical discourse / Michael B. Cover and Lutz Doering

Philo's library and the libraries of philosophical schools / Gregory E. Sterling

The Socratic background of Philo's ethics: the case of piety / Sharon Weisser

Was Philo's Moses a Pyrrhonian hero? / Carlos Lévy

Crawling on the belly and eating earth: how relevant was Epicurus for Philo? / Geert Roskam

Philo's therapy of desire: law, askēsis, and the rod of Paideia

Philosophy and the Sitz im Leben of Philo's Quod omnis probus liber sit / Troels Engberg-Pedersen

First century Rome as a philosophical context for Philo of Alexandria: the introduction to Philo's treatise Every Good Man is Free (Probus 1-15) / Maren R. Niehoff

Natural philosophy and stoicism in Philo's oeuvre / Gretchen Reydams-Schils

"Holy and philosophical": two religious Platonists in their endeavour to be both theologically and philosophically orthodox / Rainer Hirsch-Luipold

Philo of Alexandria on the practical and contemplative life: some remarks / Mauro Bonazzi

What's in a name change? Neo-Pythagorean arithmology and middle-platonic namewrights in Philo's orchard of philosophy / Michael B. Cover

Philo of Alexandria on the Hebdomad: neo-Pythagorean arithmology and Jewish tradition / Lutz Doering

The double creation of the human being and philosophical soteriology.

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