By Peter Karavites
This article offers with Clement of Alexandria's interpretation of evil and unfastened will within the context of the emerging Christianity, the impacts of close to japanese and Greek notion on him, his transformations from St Augustine, and the way his interpretation affected the increase of the jap Christian concept. The booklet additionally strains in brief the topic of man's own goal in lifestyles, perceived by means of Clement because the suppression of his nature. Failure to achieve this own goal in lifestyles ends up in alienation from God, and dying. the ethical quandary of Clement's interpretation of evil as failure of life's objective isn't really a traditional clarification of excellent and evil, yet whatever even more: the choice among actual lifestyles and dying. Consquently, Clement's concept of evil refers to existential difficulties and ontological realities.
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3). These demons exhort an individual to the commission of evil " Eur. Chrysippê, fr. 840. It reminds us of Paul's saying in Rom. 23; 25 which might even have its roots in Greek literature. " Clement refers to Philebus for the Platonic notion but the reference seems to be misplaced, see Rep. 8, 549 B. For Clement the holy resides in us and any pollution is an abhorrence of the holy, which in tum abhors to be polluted, Paed. 4 , "Paed. 2; Isa. 4; Jer. 12-13. "Paed. 5; Matt. 15 ״Str. 6. "Paed. 4; Str.
617; Gorg. 477 A. "Str. 1. 617 E. on by seeking to block them with a philosophical discourse. Those who hold these views argue, he maintains, that the person who does not take precaution against a theft, or does not prevent it is also the cause of it. Accordingly the person who does not prevent a conflagration or its genesis is equally the cause of the conflagration with the originator of it. This is the position in which the promoters of the aforesaid argument place God. Clement does not agree with them because he sees the blame of happenings in their execution, actualization and realization.
