title: The structure of an individual soul and the problem of “two minds” in the theology of Philo of Alexandria
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metadata.value: Prikhodko, Maksim A. (archpriest)
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metadata.value: 2022-06-17T17:57:03Z
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metadata.value: 2022-06-17T17:57:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Prikhodko M. A. The structure of an individual soul and the problem of “two minds” in the theology of Philo of Alexandria. Issues of Theology, 2022, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 195–208.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2022.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36810
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metadata.value: The teaching of Philo the Alexandrian is a system of the regular intersection of theological
  and psychological lines of reasoning. The crucial point for the Judaic thinker
  was the rational explanation of religious doctrine. Philo manages to do this using
  the Stoics’ concept of soul and its action in the light of allegoric interpretations of
  the central points of Genesis, such as the creation of man and the first-fall of the
  Progenitors. Philo’s elaboration on the Stoics’ doctrine of the soul reveals the conceptual
  model of relationship between God and man based on the communication
  between the mind and the senses within a human soul. Philo finds the universal
  aspect of the action of an individual mind, whose disposition towards the senses
  either links it to the universe and God or closes it within itself and becomes a cause
  of vice. Philo uses the Stoics’ distinguishing of an individual mind (hegemonikon)
  and the universal logos to state the transitional function of the human mind regarding
  God and the universe. In terms of the Stoics’ concept of the rational nature of
  impulse, Philo explains man’s responsibility for the appearance of evil as well as the
  reason for seeking the cause of the universe and its place there. Thus, Philo shows
  the action of an individual soul both in the context of the living processes of the
  whole universe and in relation to God.
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metadata.value: The research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research project no. 21-011-44178 “Formation of rational theology in Antiquity and the early Middle Ages”.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 4; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mind
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reason
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: soul
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sense
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: individuality
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: logos
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stoicism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: governing principle
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hegemonikon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: universe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rational soul
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: irrational soul
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The structure of an individual soul and the problem of “two minds” in the theology of Philo of Alexandria
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