Divine Providence and Ontological Value of the Singulars: the Late Ancient Philosophical Controversy and Origen and Nemesius of Emesa's Thought
The present paper focuses on the debate over the scope of providence that took place among the Stoic, Platonic and Peripatetic schools between the first and the third centuries AD. In that context, it deals with the problem of the ontological status of the singulars in the thought of Origen of Alexa...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/7776 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=patris&d=7776_oai |
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| Sumario: | The present paper focuses on the debate over the scope of providence that took place among the Stoic, Platonic and Peripatetic schools between the first and the third centuries AD. In that context, it deals with the problem of the ontological status of the singulars in the thought of Origen of Alexandria and Nemesius of Emesa. Influenced primarily by the Philonian synthesis of the different Greek theories of providence with that of the Scriptures, Origen and Nemesius ground the consistency of individual beings on the thesis of a direct divine action intended for each of them. Faced with the universalistic and necessitarian tendencies of classical thought, the Greek Fathers tried to rescue the metaphysical value of individuals as such. |
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