1. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Abraham, 257, 256 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 385 | 256. For when Abraham had lost such a partner of his whole life, as our account has shown her to have been, and as the scriptures testify that she was, he still like a wrestler prevailed over the grief which attacked him and threatened to overwhelm his soul; strengthening and encouraging with great virtue and resolution, reason, the natural adversary of the passions, which indeed he had always taken as a counsellor during the whole of his life; but at this time above all others, he thought fit to be guided by it, when it was giving him the best and most expedient advice. |
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2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Migration of Abraham, 67 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •maimonides, jewish philosopher, apatheia and metriopatheia alternative ideals Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 385 | 67. But the foolish man proceeds always by means of the two passions together, both anger and desire, omitting no opportunity, and discarding reason as his pilot and judge. But the man who is contrary to him has extirpated anger and desire from his nature, and has enlisted himself under divine reason as his guide; as also Moses, that faithful servant of God, did. Who, when he is offering the burnt offerings of the soul, "washes out the Belly;" that is to say, he washes out the whole seat of desires, and he takes away "the breast of the ram of the Consecration;" that is to say, that whole of the warlike disposition, that so the remainder, the better portion of the soul, the rational part, having no longer anything to draw it in a different direction or to counteract its natural impulses, may indulge its own free and noble inclinations towards everything that is beautiful; |
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| 3. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 3.128-3.134, 3.140-3.147 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •maimonides, jewish philosopher, apatheia and metriopatheia alternative ideals Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 385 |
| 4. Philo of Alexandria, Questions On Genesis, 4.177 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •maimonides, jewish philosopher, apatheia and metriopatheia alternative ideals Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 385 |
| 5. Philo of Alexandria, Who Is The Heir, None (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 385 |
| 6. Augustine, Questions On The Heptateuch, 1.30 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •maimonides, jewish philosopher, apatheia and metriopatheia alternative ideals Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 385 |
| 7. Maimonides, Commentary On The Misnah, 5.7 Tagged with subjects: •maimonides, jewish philosopher, apatheia and metriopatheia alternative ideals Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 385 |
| 8. Maimonides, Hilkhot De'Ot, 1.4-1.5 Tagged with subjects: •maimonides, jewish philosopher, apatheia and metriopatheia alternative ideals Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 385 |
