Letter to Marcella.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 22801 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 74 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251449562 |
Classic bilingual collection. Among the great texts of Late Antiquity, the Letter to Marcella by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry of Tyre has been called by critics the "spiritual testament of paganism." Indeed, in many ways, this text constitutes a summary of Greek philosophy of the Hellenistic and Roman periods and a snapshot of what it had become in the 3rd century, particularly under the influence of Plotinus. At that time, philosophy, which was essentially reduced to Platonism, was above all a method for diverting the soul from the sensible and uniting it with God, by means of virtues, knowledge, in particular theology, and asceticism. To console her for having left him for a long journey, Porphyry reminds his wife of the fundamental elements of the doctrine to which she has chosen to adhere: the philosopher's home is also a school of philosophy. Historians of ancient piety have praised the high spirituality of this opuscule, a school of relationship to oneself, to others and to the divine, which sheds renewed light on the profound changes in philosophy at the threshold of the 4th century, and this before the advent of the golden age of Christian literature and the political and cultural domination of Christianity.
Classic bilingual collection. Among the great texts of Late Antiquity, the Letter to Marcella by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry of Tyre has been called by critics the "spiritual testament of paganism." Indeed, in many ways, this text constitutes a summary of Greek philosophy of the Hellenistic and Roman periods and a snapshot of what it had become in the 3rd century, particularly under the influence of Plotinus. At that time, philosophy, which was essentially reduced to Platonism, was above all a method for diverting the soul from the sensible and uniting it with God, by means of virtues, knowledge, in particular theology, and asceticism. To console her for having left him for a long journey, Porphyry reminds his wife of the fundamental elements of the doctrine to which she has chosen to adhere: the philosopher's home is also a school of philosophy. Historians of ancient piety have praised the high spirituality of this opuscule, a school of relationship to oneself, to others and to the divine, which sheds renewed light on the profound changes in philosophy at the threshold of the 4th century, and this before the advent of the golden age of Christian literature and the political and cultural domination of Christianity.