Philo Of Alexandria: Uniting Greek Thought And Judaism | PhilosophyStudent.org

Born in ancient Egypt, Philo's work reflects a blend of cultures and ideas. Join us as we uncover the life of a man who sought to find common ground between different worlds of thought. This is the story of Philo, a philosopher who looked for truth in the harmony of beliefs.

Biography of Philo of Alexandria

Philo of Alexandria was a Hellenized Jew, also known as Judaeus Philo, who used
philosophical allegory to harmonise the Torah with Greek philosophy. More specifically,
he applied Stoic philosophy to traditional Jewish scriptural exegesis. This work
subsequently influenced several fathers of the Christian Church, and it is possible that
Philo’s concept of Logos, as God’s creative principle, was directly absorbed into early
Christian theology.

Philo was born about 20 BC in Alexandria, Egypt, part of the Roman Empire. His familial heritage was noble. He is known to have visited the Second Temple at least once and was a contemporary of Jesus.

Philo lived in an age of active Jewish-Hellenistic syncretism, and he dedicated
himself to synthesising Plato and Moses into a single, unified philosophical system. In
this, he was guided by Aristotelianism and Stoicism as well as by mostly traditional
Jewish theology.

His starting place was always the Torah, which he took as the baseline
of religious truth and truth in general. He held that the Greek philosophers
borrowed from the Bible, and he interpreted scripture allegorically to support this
contention. As he saw it, the characters in Scripture symbolise aspects of the human
being, and biblical stories illustrate the human experience.

His concept of God is a transcendent, non-anthropomorphic entity without
physical features or emotional qualities. God exists beyond time and space and makes
no special interventions. God’s existence alone is certain and is without
predicate.

Like Plato, Philo sees matter as transitory and illusory, with reality inhering
in the ideal. Humankind consists of a mind/spirit and a soul within a body. God created
and governed the world via mediators, among which Logos is next to God, functioning as the demiurge of the world.

Logos is, in effect, the firstborn son of God and functions as the mind of the Eternal. Logos is an entity neither created nor uncreated and thus occupies a middle position between God and Man. The power of Logos flows from God and is not autonomous.

Philo is credited as the first philosopher to identify Plato’s “Ideas” with the Creator’s
thoughts, which are the content of Logos. Logos is an advocate for humanity as well as
God’s liaison with the world. Logos orders the human mind, providing the right reason, which is the infallible source of law.

This video is about Philo Of Alexandria: Uniting Greek Thought And Judaism. But It also covers the following topics:

Philo's Jewish Philosophy
Alexandria's Ancient Thinker
Philo's Torah Interpretation



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Something extremely FISHY about this man’s existence during the so called “times of Jesus”…PHILO starts of PHILOSOPHY?