on Stoicism? or to point out their Christian character which,
| ( After pointing out the } Clement's ethics and the Il } of Neoplatonism, we sh , element which is chara ETHICS Middle Platonism, and role of Christ. In this c ome scholars both of the last and of the present century have q answer for the two fol So Clement's ethical views, and have attempted either
| ae to give a general sketch of them! or to stress their dependence 1. Is there any rela on Stoicism? or to point out their Christian character which,
| plays in Clement according to them, remains uncorrupted even if the language i of Neoplatonism , used is sometimes borrowed from Greek philosophy.' But, as far
2. Can Christ & role i as I know, no comprehensive inquiry has been undertaken on J part of me functio the problem of the relations between Clement's ethical doctrines of gnosis? If RO; h and those of Philo, of Middle Platonism, and of Neoplatonism.4 atmosphere of gnos If we succeed in our attempt to show how strongly this cultural
| 1. We meet two gene background has influenced both the general structure of Clement's | op ake Paatsaagus: ethical system and its climax—i.e. the ideal of dd@ea and of ake dpolwors 0e@—we shall also be able to produce a picture of | Paed. i. 101. 2 (i. 150.
Clement's ethics different from that with which the book by | auipees 7H Ady e W. Vélker presents us. In order to achieve this result, it will be
— Paed. iii. 35. 2 (1. 257. best to examine thoroughly the following points:
1. The doctrine of virtue in general. i | To these two definitions 2. The four cardinal virtues and their relations with the difsage, which, though no ferent parts of the soul. them:
3. The doctrine of mdBos.
4. The lower ethical stage: the ethics of perpiomdBeva in con1% cbirnd al doris Na nection with the maxim 'to live according to nature'.
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5. The higher ethical stage: the ethics of dwd@eva and the por- | trait of the perfect Christian or yywortxds.
| | The words Bios... ovo 6. 'Opoiwois bed. i passage remind us of th ! See, for instance, the works by F. J. Winter, K. Ernesti, W. Capitaine, J.
J rov Bioy in the first def Patrick, 141 87; and R. B, Tollinton, Ay 239 69 one a7 88 and re ao Adyou diSackopevwr rec 2 Seethe litera sl
SOF : the scholars who have held this view before Vélker see the literature quoted in the JJ It has already been Introduction, footnote 1, p. 3 above.
Stoic origin.! It must, ho 4 Prunct, though admitting in his recent book La Morale de Clément d'Alexandrie... j that 'Clément marque un tournant décisif dans le processus @hellénisation du
WW ' See, for instance, C. Merk Christianisme' (p. 243), does not study Clement's ethics from this point of view:
J 330, M. Daskalakis, 100,J. St his main concern is to establish to what extent Clement's ethical system agrees KL. (1943), 162, and with the ethics of the New Testament. i comparing Stobacus, Ecl. ii, p if