Sublime

Philo of Alexandria, for whom the word designated a kind of mediating power in Heaven, transmitting to the finite universe the ordering and governing power of God.

philos as the root of Philadelphia,

the word our Greek friends used to describe the love of friendship and the fellowship of being with people we enjoy. Philos describes the people you want to hang out with and who want to hang with you too.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school…. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not theoretically, but practically. —Henry David Thoreau

This book is interesting in another respect. Although the writer is obviously an orthodox Jew, he uses the language of the Stoic philosophy, and is concerned to prove that the Jews live most completely in accordance with its precepts. The book opens with the sentence: “Philosophical in the highest degree is the question I propose to discuss, namely

Who is the business really for? What is its core purpose and philosophy? Is it philanthropic in the true sense of the word? These are the kinds of questions that come from the 6th line perspective. Philanthropy is not the privilege of the wealthy, but a requirement of the healthy. The

Justin Martyr (c.100–c.165), who employed the Stoic conception of a divine ‘Reason’ (Logos) pervading all things – partially present in all rational intellects – to explain who the eternal Son of God, incarnate in Jesus, was.

Justin Martyr (c.100–c.165), who employed the Stoic conception of a divine ‘Reason’ (Logos) pervading all things – partially present in all rational intellects – to explain who the eternal Son of God, incarnate in Jesus, was.