Philo Judaeus
PHILO JUDAEUS (c. 20 BCE–50 CE), Hellenistic Jewish thinker, author of an elaborate synthesis of Jewish religious thought and Greek philosophy. Although the church fathers know hi...
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Philo Judaeus(Fl. 20 Bce–40 Ce)
Philo Judaeus, the Jewish Hellenistic philosopher, was the son of a wealthy and prominent Alexandrian family. Philo was well educated in both Judaism and Greek p...
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Philo Judaeus [addendum]
The original entry on Philo Judaeus was written by Harry Wolfson, one of the preeminent scholars of medieval religious philosophy. A major premise of his general work is that ...
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Philo was the first to formulate the problem of the reconciliation of faith and reason, which was to dominate the history of philosophy until René Descartes and Benedict de Spinoza shifted the ...
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Philo Judaeus (ca. 20 BC-ca. AD 45) was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher. An important example of philosophical syncretism, he was a Diaspora Jew prepared to concede a good deal to Hellenism in his in...
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