L’empereur Julien était-il intolérant?
The notions of tolerance and intolerance arose in Antiquity through the facing of religion (first Christian, then pagan) and State (first pagan, then Christian), but they were not settled in concepts. People of that time used to reduce their expression to bordering notions like mildness or mercy and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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Revue d'études augustiniennes et patristiques
Year: 2007, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14 |
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| Summary: | The notions of tolerance and intolerance arose in Antiquity through the facing of religion (first Christian, then pagan) and State (first pagan, then Christian), but they were not settled in concepts. People of that time used to reduce their expression to bordering notions like mildness or mercy and conversely injustice or persecution. Julian has got a fairly clear notion of tolerance, to which he can only refer with the Greek word praotês (= mildness). He sets it as a high principle and asserts that he respects it. About this point his contemporaries’ opinions differ and pagan like Themistius and Ammianus Marcellinus desapprovingly note some of his actings which with our words we would call intolerant. Les notions de tolérance et d’intolérance ont émergé dans l’Antiquité à l’occasion des affrontements entre religion (chrétienne, puis païenne) et pouvoir politique (païen, puis chrétien), mais elles n’ont pas été conceptualisées par les Anciens, qui en ramènent l’expression à des notions voisines (mansuétude, clémence / injustice ou persécution). Julien pour sa part a une notion fort claire de la tolérance, qu’il ne peut désigner que par le nom grec praotês = mansuétude. Il en fait une valeur qu’il promeut et affirme respecter. Sur ce point les avis de ses contemporains divergent, et les païens Thémistios et Ammien Marcellin relèvent chez Julien des comportements que nous dirions intolérants. |
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| ISSN: | 2428-3606 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue d'études augustiniennes et patristiques
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.REA.5.100929 |
