The Universal and the Status of Genera-Species Division in Clement of Alexandria


In this paper I will defend an interpretation of Clement of Alexandria’s teaching about categories, according to which the categories apply only to the material world, but not to intelligible and divine reality. I draw the parallel between Clement’s theory and a corresponding doctrine offered by Eun...

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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2017
In: Scrinium
Jahr: 2017, Band: 13, Heft: 1, Seiten: 401-406
RelBib Classification:KAB Kirchengeschichte 30-500; Frühchristentum
VA Philosophie
weitere Schlagwörter:B universals
 genera-species division
 categories
 Middle Platonism

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Zusammenfassung:In this paper I will defend an interpretation of Clement of Alexandria’s teaching about categories, according to which the categories apply only to the material world, but not to intelligible and divine reality. I draw the parallel between Clement’s theory and a corresponding doctrine offered by Eunomius, the leader of Arianism in the second half of the fourth century, which he developed as a reaction to the Nicaean horizontal discourse of Triadology.

ISSN:1817-7565
Enthält:In: Scrinium
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00131p25