Philo Of Alexandria On Virtues

Author : Walter Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004190375

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Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues by Walter Wilson Pdf

In the treatise On Virtues, Philo of Alexandria demonstrates how Moses, the constitution he established, and the community that follows its laws embody certain moral ideals (courage, humanity, repentance, and nobility) that were widely admired in the Greco-Roman world.

Author : Walter T. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 1589837320

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Philo of Alexandria, on Virtues by Walter T. Wilson Pdf

Author : Philo (of Alexandria.)
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004189072

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Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues by Philo (of Alexandria.) Pdf

In the treatise On Virtues, Philo of Alexandria demonstrates how Moses, the constitution he established, and the community that follows its laws embody certain moral ideals (courage, humanity, repentance, and nobility) that were widely admired in the Greco-Roman world.

Author : Nélida Naveros Córdova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 1978702272

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Philo of Alexandria's Ethical Discourse by Nélida Naveros Córdova Pdf

"This book examines Philo's understanding of the acquisition of virtues and the avoidance of vices using the Greek concept of piety as a central virtue in his ethical discourse. Naveros exceptionally shows how Philo construes his understanding of living ethically within both the Hellenistic Jewish and Greek traditions"--

Author : Philo
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547726623

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On the Embassy to Gaius by Philo Pdf

An ancient Roman history text, translated by Charles Yonge, and written by the Greek philosopher Philo of Alexandria. The Embassy to Gaius was a meeting between Gaius Caligula, the then Roman Emperor, and a large contingent of Jews. They wished to overturn Gaius' plans to have a huge statue of Zeus installed in the temple. Gaius' hatred of the Jews is legendary. This book is important because it helps to understand the relations between Jews and Romans in the first century A.D.

Author : Geoffrey D. Claussen,Alexander Green,Alan L. Mittleman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438493923

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Jewish Virtue Ethics by Geoffrey D. Claussen,Alexander Green,Alan L. Mittleman Pdf

What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions of character and virtue such as these, reflecting a wide range of contexts and influences. Beginning with the Bible and culminating with twenty-first-century feminism and environmentalism, Jewish Virtue Ethics explores thirty-five influential Jewish approaches to character and virtue. Virtue ethics has been a burgeoning field of moral inquiry among academic philosophers in the postwar period. Although Jewish ethics has also flourished as an academic (and practical) field, attention to the role of virtue in Jewish thought has been underdeveloped. This volume seeks to illuminate its centrality not only for readers primarily interested in Jewish ethics but also for readers who take other approaches to virtue ethics, including within the Western virtue ethics tradition. The original essays written for this volume provide valuable sources for philosophical reflection.

Author : Charles Duke Philo
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 1920 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619701168

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The Works of Philo by Charles Duke Philo Pdf

An affordable edition of Philo! A contemporary of Jesus and Paul, Philo wrote extensively on the Hebrew Scriptures and other Jewish topics, but few have read his work because all available sets were pricey. This edition features modern type, passages keyed to the Loeb referencing system, and several newly translated sections not found in other editions.

Author : Peder Borgen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004267329

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Philo of Alexandria - An Exegete for His Time by Peder Borgen Pdf

Philo's writings are a comprehensive and important source of late Second Temple Judaism. This volume gives important insights into his exegetical works. The structure of the books and their exegetical ideas are seen here as being closely connected and his writings are analysed against the background of the history, variety and outlook of Alexandrian Jewry. Philo's exegesis is a meeting place between Jewish and Greek notions and ideas; tensions are reflected, such as those between particularism and universalism, between specific biblical and historical earthly events and general macro- and micro-cosmic principles, and between heavenly ascents and interpreted history and eschatology. In addition, glimpses are gained of community life in a Hellenistic Jewish community, especially of issues on the borderline between Jews and their non-Jewish surroundings. New Testament material illuminates Philo's broader Jewish context, and in turn Philo throws light on New Testament backgrounds.

Author : William J. Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315522043

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Virtue and Knowledge by William J. Prior Pdf

Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics, such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, accessible to readers with no training in the classics.

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 0191816892

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Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond by Julia Annas Pdf

Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. Annas shows that, rather than rejecting the approach to an ideal society in the Republic (as generally thought), Plato is in both dialogues concerned with the relation of virtue to law, and obedience to law, and presents, in the Laws, a more careful and sophisticated account of that relation. His approach in the Laws differs from his earlier one, because he now tries to build from the political cultures of actual societies (and their histories) instead of producing a theoretical thought-experiment.

Author : Joan E. Taylor,David M. Hay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439238

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Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life by Joan E. Taylor,David M. Hay Pdf

De Vita Contemplativa is known for its depiction of a philosophical group of Jewish men and women known as the ‘Therapeutae’. This commentary sets the treatise in its historical context and explores Philo’s aims in depicting them as he did.

Author : Michael B. Cover
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004687424

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Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names by Michael B. Cover Pdf

In the treatise On the Change of Names (part of his magnum opus, the Allegorical Commentary), Philo of Alexandria brings his figurative exegesis of the Abraham cycle to its fruition. Taking a cue from Platonist interpreters of Homer's Odyssey, Philo reads Moses's story of Abraham as an account of the soul's progress and perfection. Responding to contemporary critics, who mocked Genesis 17 as uninspired, Philo finds instead a hidden philosophical reflection on the ineffability of the transcendent God, the transformation of souls which recognize their mortal nothingness, the possibility of human faith enabled by peerless faithfulness of God, and the fruit of moral perfection: joy divine, prefigured in the birth of Isaac.

Author : Douwe (David) Runia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004313231

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Philo of Alexandria by Douwe (David) Runia Pdf

This volume is a continuation of Philo of Alexandria: an Annotated Bibliography 1937-1986, published by Roberto Radice and David Runia in 1988 (second edition 1992). Prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, it contains a complete listing of all scholarly writings on Philo in all languages for the period 1987 to 1996. Part One lists texts, translations, commentaries etc. (75 items). Part Two contains critical studies (880 items). In part Three additional works for the years 1937-1986 are presented (170 items). In all cases a brief description of the contents of the contribution is given. Seven indices, including a detailed Index of subjects, complete the work.

Author : Ellen Birnbaum,John M. Dillon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004423640

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Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham by Ellen Birnbaum,John M. Dillon Pdf

In this new English translation and commentary of Philo’s On the Life of Abraham Ellen Birnbaum and John Dillon show how and why this unique biography displays Philo’s philosophical, exegetical, and literary genius at its best.

Author : Benjamin Wirt Farley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802807925

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In Praise of Virtue by Benjamin Wirt Farley Pdf

In this resourceful and illuminating exploration of the biblical virtues, Benjamin W. Farley examines both the Old and the New Testament and applies their teachings on moral character to the Christian life today. In the process, Farley critically reviews the current philosophical and theological interest in virtue, engages the Aristotelian, Thomist, and modern views of virtue, incorporates and responds to feminist concerns, and discusses the importance of the biblical virtues for our pluralistic age.