Matter in Origen’s treatise De principiis IV 4,6-8

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Matter in Origen’s treatise De principiis IV 4,6-8

Original language description

Origen’s analysis of matter (ὕλη, materia) as provided in De principiis IV,4,6(33)–8(35), considers, besides a short polemic against the concept of “unchangeable elements”, two basic ideas: (i) material nature as qualities without any substrate; (ii) matter as the substrate of qualities. While the second concept, originating in Plato’s Timaeus, comes close to the Stoic doctrine which Origen enriches with some Aristotelian features, the first one is also attested by Plotinus, who, similarly to Origen, rejects it; it was, later on, endorsed by the Cappadocians. In my paper, I try to show the philosophical background of both concepts, as well as to follow Origen’s biblical argumentation.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-20873S" target="_blank" >GA22-20873S: Clement of Alexandria's Biblical Exegesis as a Source of his Concept of Corporeality</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Origeniana Tertia Decima: Origen and Philosophy. A Complex Relation, ed. Alfons Fürst

ISBN

978-90-429-5351-2

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

263-276

Number of pages of the book

865

Publisher name

Peeters Publishers

Place of publication

Leuven

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