The Moral Psychology of Clement of Alexandria : Mosaic Philosophy

作為最早的基督教哲學家之一，Clement的作品被認為是至關重要、對於理解基督教與猶太教之間以及基督教與異教哲學之間關係的歷史。

雖然古代主張Moses的著作被哲學學派所閱讀，但在猶太人、基督教徒和異教徒的作者身上發現，Gibbons表明，Clement對這一主張的使用不僅塑造了他對其作者項目的正當性，也塑造了他的哲學論證。在解釋他所採取的最高級上帝是立法者學說的宇宙論，形而上學和倫理含義時，Clement就他在一系列問題上的觀點提供了理論上的證據，包括殉難、性禁慾主義，以及Moses的律法，以及神聖的天意與人的自治之間的關係。通過將Clement關於意志的討論與更廣泛的希臘羅馬關於自決的辯論聯繫起來，有可能在早期的基督教異端話語中重新解釋“自由意志”的引用，作為關於人類自治需要的更大爭議的一部分。

In The Moral Psychology of Clement of Alexandria, Kathleen Gibbons proposes a new approach to Clement's moral philosophy and explores how his construction of Christianity's relationship with Jewishness informed, and was informed by, his philosophical project. As one of the earliest Christian philosophers, Clement's work has alternatively been treated as important for understanding the history of relations between Christianity and Judaism and between Christianity and pagan philosophy. This study argues that an adequate examination of his significance for the one requires an adequate examination of his significance for the other.

While the ancient claim that the writings of Moses were read by the philosophical schools was found in Jewish, Christian, and pagan authors, Gibbons demonstrates that Clement's use of this claim shapes not only his justification of his authorial project, but also his philosophical argumentation. In explaining what he took to be the cosmological, metaphysical, and ethical implications of the doctrine that the supreme God is a lawgiver, Clement provided the theoretical justifications for his views on a range of issues that included martyrdom, sexual asceticism, the status of the law of Moses, and the relationship between divine providence and human autonomy. By contextualizing Clement's discussions of volition against wider Greco-Roman debates about self-determination, it becomes possible to reinterpret the invocation of "free will" in early Christian heresiological discourse as part of a larger dispute about what human autonomy requires.

   Kathleen Gibbons (Autor)

Publisher:Routledge 

ISBN:    978-1472454447 

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