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LOGOS KOD FILONA ALEKSANDRIJSKOG: SINTEZA DVE TRADICIJE
LOGOS IN PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA: SYNTHESIS OF TWO TRADITIONS

Author(s): Aleksandar Đakovac
Subject(s): Epistemology, Logic, Ancient Philosphy
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: Philo of Alexandria; logos; archetype; paradigm; endiathetos; prophorikos;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, our intention is to present the main aspects of the understanding of the logos in Philo of Alexandria. Philo’s reception of this notion is especially important because his insights significantly influenced the development of patristic philosophy, and these influences, through the mediation of scholasticism, reached the modern age. Philo has a very important role in creating the Judeo-Christian heritage, and represents an important link for understanding the formation of the basic matrices of this worldview. For the first time, a thorough synthesis of Semitic and Hellenic heritage was performed with him. The use of the term logos in that synthesis proves to be one of the key ones, since it is precisely this term, which has never lost its philosophical significance, partly and thanks to Philo, that is identified with the Son of God of the Christian tradition.

  • Issue Year: 63/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 5-15
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian