"Nómos émpsychos"el tratado "De Iosepho" de Filón de Alejandría
ISSN: 1133-0902
Year of publication: 2008
Issue: 15
Pages: 49-68
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista española de filosofía medieval
Abstract
Analysis of a capital text, De Iosepho (On Joseph), to understand the political philosophy of Philo of Alexandria. This autor, according to its religious creed (judaism) and its philosophy affinities (pythagoreanism, heracliteanism, platonism, aristotelianism, stoicism, pyrrhonism and neoplatonism), praises the monarchical state (the Theocracy of the Pentateuch would be the model, he hellenistic monarchies the copy), that reinterprets in terms of ethnos, religion and culture. The morarch should embody or to be the «Living Law» (Nomos Empsychos)