Philon of Alexandria (English spelling)

Japanese: フィロン[アレクサンドリアの](英語表記)Philōn
Philon of Alexandria (English spelling)
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A famous philosopher who was educated in both Jewish tradition and Greek culture. He was commonly known as Philo Judaeus. He was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Alexandria. At the time, Alexandria was a Greek cultural city that flourished under the rule of the Ptolemy dynasty, but it was home to a large Jewish population (the Jewish population in Egypt at that time was said to be no less than one million), and they were granted special autonomy. The most pressing problem for these Jews in the Diaspora was how to harmonize the teachings of their forefathers, the Old Testament, with their cultural background, Greek thought, and how to defend the superiority of Jewish thought.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
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ユダヤ的伝統とギリシア的教養を身につけた著名な哲学者。一般にフィロ・ユダエウスPhilo Judaeusの通称で知られる。アレクサンドリアの裕福なユダヤ人の家庭に生まれた。当時のアレクサンドリアはプトレマイオス王家の支配のもとに栄えたギリシア的文化都市であったが,多数のユダヤ人が居住し(この時代のエジプト全体のユダヤ人の人口は100万をくだらなかったという),彼らに特別の自治権が認められていた。これら離散(ディアスポラ)のユダヤ人にとって最も切実な問題は,彼らの父祖の教えである旧約聖書とその文化的背景であるギリシア思想との調和を,いかにしてはかり,かつユダヤ思想の優位性をいかに弁証するかということであった。

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