Biblical Ethics and Plotinus
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Biblical Ethics and Plotinus. / Pontoppidan, Maria.
In: Judaica Petropolitana, Vol. 1, 2013, p. 56-67.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › Research
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T1 - Biblical Ethics and Plotinus
AU - Pontoppidan, Maria
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This article focuses on the question of unification versus relationality in ethics. It compares two different ethical approaches from Late Antiquity, highlighting the contrast between Plotinian (Neoplatonic) ethics as striving for perfect unification of the human soul with the divinity - and Biblical ethics as a relational ethics, where alterity remains operative in the encounter with the deity, and where the primary ethical demand is to relate properly to fellow creatures and God as other. The latter demand is exemplified by the figure of Job, whose righteousness is interpreted as his insisting on this relation at a more fundamental level than his friends.
AB - This article focuses on the question of unification versus relationality in ethics. It compares two different ethical approaches from Late Antiquity, highlighting the contrast between Plotinian (Neoplatonic) ethics as striving for perfect unification of the human soul with the divinity - and Biblical ethics as a relational ethics, where alterity remains operative in the encounter with the deity, and where the primary ethical demand is to relate properly to fellow creatures and God as other. The latter demand is exemplified by the figure of Job, whose righteousness is interpreted as his insisting on this relation at a more fundamental level than his friends.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Plotinus, Neoplatonic ethics, unification, Book of Job
KW - PLOTINUS
KW - JOB
KW - UNIFICATION
KW - RELATIONALITY
KW - NEOPLATONIC ETHICS
M3 - Conference article
VL - 1
SP - 56
EP - 67
JO - Judaica Petropolitana
JF - Judaica Petropolitana
SN - 2307-9053
ER -
ID: 38063922