The Universal and the Status of Genera-Species Division in Clement of Alexandria


In this paper I will defend an interpretation of Clement of Alexandria’s teaching about categories, according to which the categories apply only to the material world, but not to intelligible and divine reality. I draw the parallel between Clement’s theory and a corresponding doctrine offered by Eun...

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Published in:Scrinium
Main Author: Biriukov, Dmitry (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Scrinium
IxTheo Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B universals
 genera-species division
 categories
 Middle Platonism

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Summary:In this paper I will defend an interpretation of Clement of Alexandria’s teaching about categories, according to which the categories apply only to the material world, but not to intelligible and divine reality. I draw the parallel between Clement’s theory and a corresponding doctrine offered by Eunomius, the leader of Arianism in the second half of the fourth century, which he developed as a reaction to the Nicaean horizontal discourse of Triadology.

ISSN:1817-7565
Contains:In: Scrinium
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00131p25