Philo Judaeus Vol 1 Of 2

Author : James Drummond
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ISBN 13 : 9781330551011
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Philo Judaeus, Vol. 2 of 2 written by James Drummond and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Philo Judaeus, Vol. 2 of 2: Or the Jewish-Alexandrian Philosophy in Its Development and Completion Some, whom he characterizes as atheists, were content with an attitude of doubt; but others went further, and boldly asserted that there was no God at all, and that he was merely said to exist by men who had over shadowed the truth with mythical inventions. The latter were under the necessity of offering a theory antagonistic to theism, and accordingly maintained that nothing existed but the perceptible and visible universe, which had never come into being and would never perish, but was unbegotten and incorruptible, without a guardian, a pilot, or a protector. Since there was thus no invisible and intelligible cause outside of perceptible things, it was assumed that everything in the cosmos was borne along by spontaneous motion, and that arts and studies, laws and customs, were due to the activity of the human mind alone. Others, who are described as Chaldseans, embraced a pantheistic theory. They too maintained that the phenomenal world was the only existence; but they declared either that it was itself God, or that it included God within itself as the soul of the universe. Apart from phenomena there was no cause, but the periods of the sun and moon and the other heavenly bodies determined the distribution of good and ill, and thus everything was handed over to the dominion of fate and necessity. To these speculations Philo opposed the doctrine of Moses, the beholder of the invisible nature, and seer of God," according to which the Divine exists, and the supreme God** is neither the cosmos nor the soul of the cosmos, nor are the heavenly bodies the prime causes of human events. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."