The school of Alexandria is current philosophical which develops with Alexandria (Egypt) during the end of the hellenistic period to last fires of the Roman empire (between).

It is about a philosophical current heir to the Platonisme of the Académie and Aristote. This heritage, which feeds especially in the zone from the Middle East and from North Africa will give a Néo-platonisme enough ondoyant and various, which go from a Ammonius Saccas, at the same time Master of the Christian Origène and pagan Plotin, to the work of the judéo-Platonic school in which one finds Philon of Alexandria.

If one wants to summarize, one can say that school of Alexandria will leave the Neo-Platonism a Jamblique and a Porphyre of Tyr, i.e. gnostic interpretations of philosophical topics, borrowed from Plato and Aristote, in which the theurgic sets of themes and hermetic are not absent. But of this school one also sees developing methods of interpretation of the texts, in particular with the development of the allegorical method , which one owes in particular in Philon.

With final, the school of Alexandria will have an crucial importance in the way in which will bind the destiny of Greek philosophy and the attempts to interpret the New Testament and the Christian Théologie in the light of Greek rationalisms. The way in which the Fathers of the Church go réapproprier the sets of themes of Greek philosophy must much at the school of Alexandria.

This philosophical school was closed, like all the pagan schools, into 529, by Justinien.

Origins

August 1st

Currents

August 1st

References

Plato | Aristote | Neo-Platonism | Ammonius Saccas | Jamblique | Plotin | Philon | Origène | Ambroise | Augustin

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