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2012-05-17 8:47am
Plato and the NeoPlatonists
The “Middle Platonic era" ends with Plotinus (204-70 A.D.), who is considered the founder of Neoplatonism. Philo of Alexandria & Larissa was Jew & Platonist appears in the theology of Clement as he unveils the Hermetic Corpus of the Chaldeans. As a Hellenized Jew also called Judaeus Philo, he is a figure that spans two cultures, the Greek and the Hebrew.
When Hebrew mythical thought met Greek philosophical thought in the first century B.C.. it was only natural that someone would try to develop speculative and philosophical justification for Judaism in terms of Greek philosophy. So Philo rose to the occasion & produced a synthesis of both traditions developing concepts for future Hellenistic interpretation of messianic Hebrew thought, especially by Clement of Alexandria and various Christian Apologists like Theophilus and Tertullian. Some think that he may have influenced Paul, his contemporary, and perhaps the authors of the Gospel of John (C. H. Dodd) as well as the Epistle to the Hebrews (R. Williamson and H. W. Attridge).
Eusebius promotes the legend that Philo met Peter in Rome. Jerome (345-420 C.E.) even lists him as a church Father. All of this is definitely spurious. But what is important about Philo is his instance that Greek philosophy was a natural development of the revelatory teachings of Moses which many other Hebraic philosophers had already claimed and stated that Hesiod's Theogony as well as Homer's works were Mosaic in basis.
So now why does this matter? Well some of these ideas of the One and the Good find themselves in the Cabala...and so into the tarot
Plato and the NeoPlatonists
The “Middle Platonic era" ends with Plotinus (204-70 A.D.), who is considered the founder of Neoplatonism. Philo of Alexandria & Larissa was Jew & Platonist appears in the theology of Clement as he unveils the Hermetic Corpus of the Chaldeans. As a Hellenized Jew also called Judaeus Philo, he is a figure that spans two cultures, the Greek and the Hebrew.
When Hebrew mythical thought met Greek philosophical thought in the first century B.C.. it was only natural that someone would try to develop speculative and philosophical justification for Judaism in terms of Greek philosophy. So Philo rose to the occasion & produced a synthesis of both traditions developing concepts for future Hellenistic interpretation of messianic Hebrew thought, especially by Clement of Alexandria and various Christian Apologists like Theophilus and Tertullian. Some think that he may have influenced Paul, his contemporary, and perhaps the authors of the Gospel of John (C. H. Dodd) as well as the Epistle to the Hebrews (R. Williamson and H. W. Attridge).
Eusebius promotes the legend that Philo met Peter in Rome. Jerome (345-420 C.E.) even lists him as a church Father. All of this is definitely spurious. But what is important about Philo is his instance that Greek philosophy was a natural development of the revelatory teachings of Moses which many other Hebraic philosophers had already claimed and stated that Hesiod's Theogony as well as Homer's works were Mosaic in basis.
So now why does this matter? Well some of these ideas of the One and the Good find themselves in the Cabala...and so into the tarot
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