Greco-Roman Ethical-Philosophical Influences in Bardaisan’s “Book of the Laws of Countries”
Bardaisan of Edessa’s Book of the Laws of Countries contains many elements of Greco-Roman ethical philosophy, ranging from loose allusions to fairly clear instances of direct borrowing. The influences from Greco-Roman philosophy are diverse, including Stoicism, Cynicism, Epicureanism, and the nebulo...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2017
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Vigiliae Christianae
Année: 2017, Volume: 71, Numéro: 5, Pages: 511-540 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAB Christianisme primitif KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord NBE Anthropologie NCA Éthique VA Philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Bardaisan of Edessa
Book of the Laws of Countries
Greco-Roman ethics
Early Syriac Christianity
Greco-Roman philosophy in the Near East in Late Antiquity
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| Résumé: | Bardaisan of Edessa’s Book of the Laws of Countries contains many elements of Greco-Roman ethical philosophy, ranging from loose allusions to fairly clear instances of direct borrowing. The influences from Greco-Roman philosophy are diverse, including Stoicism, Cynicism, Epicureanism, and the nebulously-defined “Middle Platonic” material that drew and innovated from both Platonic and Stoic sources. Specifically, we see in Laws several ethical concepts derived from Greco-Roman philosophy: the ideal human attitude to external forces, particularly the evils of society; the link between divinity, inner moral character, and proper ethics; the innate goodness of human character that can be improved and perfected based on an ideal of nature; and (closely aligned with the first concept) an understanding that moral virtue is determined by one’s individual, free will decisions, implying an innate valuation of the internal at the expense of the external. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0720 |
| Contient: | In: Vigiliae Christianae
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700720-12341319 |