Biographie
Philo
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b. 15, -10 BC, Alexandria
d. AD 45, -50, Alexandria
also called PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA, Greek-speaking
Jewish philosopher, the most important representative of
Hellenistic Judaism.
His writings provide the clearest view of this development of
Judaism in the Diaspora. As the first to attempt to synthesize
revealed faith and philosophic reason, he occupies a unique
position in the history of philosophy. He is also regarded by
Christians as a forerunner of Christian theology.
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Philo
Judæus
Born about 25 B.C.. His family, of a sacerdotal line, was one
of the most powerful of the populous Jewish colony of
Alexandria. Philo must have received a Jewish education,
studying the laws and national traditions, but he followed
also the Greek plan of studies (grammar with reading of the
poets, geometry, rhetoric, dialectics) which he reagarded as a
preparation for philosophy. Notwithstanding the lack of direct
information about his philosophical training, his works show
that he had a first hand knowledge of the stoical theories
then prevailing, Plato's dialogues, the neo-Pythagorean works,
and the moral popular literature, the outcome of Cynicism. He
remained, however, profoundly attached to the Jewish religion
with all the practices which it implied among the Jews of the
dispersion and of which the basis was the unity of worship at
the Temple in Jerusalem. His "Allegorical Commentary"
often alludes to the vocations to which the Alexandrine Jews
were subjected.
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