Journal article
Origen, Plato and the afterlife
- Abstract:
- This paper argues that at First Principles 2.3.6 Origen is responding to Gnostics who used a particular reading of Plato’s myths about the afterlife to justify their own belief that the elect will go after death into an incorporeal state. It examines (1) the use of the terms idea and phantasia in commentary on Plato’s Phaedo; (2) the evidence for Origen’s knowledge of such commentary; (3) the evidence which allegedly shows that Origen himself believed in an incorporeal paradise; and (4) the evidence that Gnostics in the third century drew on Platonic eschatology.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, 388.9KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1163/18725473-BJA10009
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- Publisher:
- Brill Academic Publishers
- Journal:
- International Journal of the Platonic Tradition More from this journal
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 160-183
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-16
- DOI:
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1872-5473
- ISSN:
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1872-5082
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1147427
- Local pid:
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pubs:1147427
- Deposit date:
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2020-12-01
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- Brill
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- Copyright © Brill 2021.
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Brill at https://doi.org/10.1163/18725473-BJA10009
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