tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post1929174444020072975..comments2024-03-29T05:05:01.273+11:00Comments on Thinking Out Aloud: God and Philosophy: Western philosophy without a yawning gapLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-23819899256419404112015-07-10T16:20:18.551+10:002015-07-10T16:20:18.551+10:00Thanks for marvelous posting.! I quite enjoyed re...Thanks for marvelous posting.! I quite enjoyed reading itObat Perangsanghttp://goo.gl/yT6vl6noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-51870339130153263992010-04-09T13:38:23.816+10:002010-04-09T13:38:23.816+10:00Glad you enjoyed it.
Philo was not a Greek philos...Glad you enjoyed it.<br /><br />Philo was not a Greek philosopher in the way Gilson means. Philo believed in the Jewish God, the God who said "I am" and who was thus a Person. From the quote, Philo is treating the Logos as an archangel, not the Person of the Trinity in the Christian sense.<br /><br />Philo is absolutely crucial as the intermediary between Greek philosophy and the Judaic tradition of scriptural Revelation. It is that notion of revelation and its implications which Gilson is drawing the distinction about. Greek notions of some first cause were more abstract and derivative. <br /><br />Something that, for example, al-Ghazali made much of in his arguments against the attempt to import Aristotelianism into Islam, (the most famous exponent of which was Ibn Rushd, "Averroes", who was extremely influential in Latin Christendom and had almost no influence in Islam).Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-30914950900069110212010-04-09T07:06:48.981+10:002010-04-09T07:06:48.981+10:00Retraction:
The above quote was from Philo of Ale...Retraction:<br /><br />The above quote was from Philo of Alexandria, not Larissa; however, the question remains the same, as the Middle Platonist Philo of Alexandria was conveying the central Greek idea of The Logos within a religious paradigm before Christianity picked up on the idea. <br /><br />Thanks AgainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-21351712315957262552010-04-09T06:55:57.089+10:002010-04-09T06:55:57.089+10:00Very nice article. One quote struck me as a bit od...Very nice article. One quote struck me as a bit odd though, and I was hoping you could put it into context for me. In the following passage:<br /><br />Christian philosophy was the use of the techniques and concepts of Greek philosophy to express ideas that “had never entered the head of a Greek philosopher”<br /><br />In what way is the author using the word ideas? I ask this because from my experience, many of the Greek ideas were directly translated into Christian concepts. Philo of Larissa, a neo-Platonist living around 100 B.C., identified the Logos, or Word, as the incarnate Son of God:<br /><br />And the father who created the universe has given to his archangel and most ancient Logos a pre-eminent gift, to stand on the confines of both, and separate that which had been created from the Creator. And this same Logos is continually a suppliant to the immortal God on behalf of the mortal race, which is exposed to affliction and misery; and is also the ambassador, sent by the Ruler of all, to the subject race. And the Logos rejoices…. saying “And I stood in the midst, between the Lord and you” (Num. 16:48); neither being uncreated as God, nor yet created as you, but being in the midst between these two extremities, like a hostage, as it were, to both parties (Her. 205-206). . . <br /><br />http://www.iep.utm.edu/philo/#H11<br /><br />Again, from my experience, many of the Christian ideas, especially Christ himself, was present in the minds of the Greeks long before Christ was said to walk the Earth. <br /><br />Other than that thanks for introducing me to the book, I will be looking into it.Timnoreply@blogger.com