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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Biriukov, Dmitry

Titel

The Principle of Individuation in Contra Eunomium 2, 4 by Basil of Caesarea and Its Philosophical and Theological Context

Ist Teil von

• Scrinium (Saint Petersburg, Russia), 2016-11, Vol.12 (1), p.215-243

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Brill

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The article analyzes the context of describing the human being through the "concurrence of properties" in the Contra Eunomnium 2.4 of Basil of Caesarea and traces the links of this topic in Basil with the theories of individuation current in Antiquity. The continuity of Basil's teaching of the concurrence in the analyzed passage with the On Prayer 24 of Origen, which reveals some Stoic connotations, is examined. At the same time, the article points to the difference between Basil's and Origen's conceptual frameworks. Two paradigms of understanding the material substratum in Basil - Platonic and Stoic - are identified. The article demonstrates the direct Stoic influence on the analyzed passage of Basil and specifies what it consisted of and why exactly Basil used the Stoic paradigm. Then, based on the place from the Apology of Eunomius, which Basil was refuting in his passage, the article reveals both the context of the passage and of the place in Eunomius in a wider setting of the doctrines of language elaborated in Antiquity.