دانلود کتاب The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate NHC I.5 A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Structure of the Present Study
2 Who Were the Valentinians?
3 The Myth in TriTrac and the Ethics in Storytelling
4 Previous Research on TriTrac and the Historical Setting of the Text
5 Early Christian Ethics and the Bad Reputation of Determinism
6 Notes on Translation and Transcription
Part 1
Theoretical Framework for Ethics
Chapter 1 The Ontological and Epistemological Foundations
for Ethics
1 Knowledge in TriTrac and Ancient Epistemology
2 Imitations, Likenesses, and Images: the Ontology of TriTrac and the
Question of Logos
3 Remembering (and) the Nature of Virtue
4 The Individual and the Collective
5 Mixing and Blending, Truth and Falsehood
6 Conclusion: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics
Chapter 2
Emotions, Demons, and Moral Ability
1 Emotions and Cognitive Theory in Ancient Thought
2 Emotions and the Creation Narrative
3 The Logos’ First Movement and Ancient Cognitive Theory
4 Good Emotions
5 Negative Passions as “Mixed” Heavenly Powers and Their Influence
on Humans
6 Apatheia, Therapeia, and Eleutheria
7 Femaleness and the Sickness of Emotions
8 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Free Will and the Configuration of the
Human Mind
1 Will and Ethics in Ancient Thought
2 Christian Free Will, the Configuration of God, and the Creation of
the Cosmos
3 Free Will and Moral Accountability in TriTrac
3.1 A Few Notes on Terminology
3.2 Will and the Creation Story
3.3 The Creation Story in Light of Other Christian Interpretations of the
Will of God
3.4 Self-Determination: Absence of Impressions and Passions
3.5 Proairesis, Assent, and Opinion in Stoicism and TriTrac
3.6 A Summary Regarding the Nature of Choice in TriTrac
4 TriTrac’s Anthropology in Context: Origen’s Christian Opponents
Part 2
Ethics in Practice
Chapter 4
Natural Human Categories and Moral Progress
1 The Three Classes of Humans in TriTrac
2 The Pedagogical Purpose of the Logos’ Organization and the
Composition of Humans
3 Three Categories of Humans According to TriTrac’s Epistemology
and Theory of Passions
4 Restricted Choice in Practice
5 Fixed, Fluid, or in Flux? The Advantages of a Fixed Anthropology
6 Conclusions
Chapter 5 School or Church? Teaching, Learning, and the
Community Structure
1 On the Community Structure behind TriTrac in Light of the
Term “Church”
2 The Cosmos as a “School” in TriTrac and Its Early Christian Context
3 The “School of Conduct” in the Pleroma and the Gaining of Form
4 The Cosmic School: an Imperfect Reflection of the Heavens
5 Silent and Oral Instruction: Formation, Baptism, and Education
6 The Duty of the Pneumatic Moral Expert and the Formation of
Psychic Christians
7 The Category of the ‘School of Valentinus’ in Early Christian
Scholarship
8 Conclusions: the Dual Structure of the Community behind TriTrac
Chapter 6 Honor and Attitudes toward Social and Political
Involvement
1 TriTrac and Early Christian Attitudes toward Involvement in
Society
2 Cosmogony as Political Commentary
3 The Pursuit of Honor
4 Psychic Humans and Their Political Involvement
5 Conclusion: the Character of Psychic Christians and Attitudes
toward Social and Ecclesiastical Involvement
Part 3
Conclusions and Implications
Chapter 7 Summary: the Nature of Early Christian
Determinism
1 TriTrac’s Alexandrian Context
Appendix Implications and Suggestions for Further Studies
Bibliography
Ancient Authors and Texts
Secondary Literature
Index of Modern Names
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Subjects