The Myth of Human Races: Can Plutarch Help Us Understand Valentinian Anthropology?

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta

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Chapter 11 The Myth of Human Races: Can Plutarch Help Us Understand Valentinian Anthropology?

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Page Range:: 188–210

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004404472_012

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The heresiological interpretation of Valentinian anthropology continues to be held as the Gnostic position regarding human origins, condition, and destiny. Church Fathers not only managed to distil and fabricate a coherent whole they could easily attack, but were also persuasive enough to perpetuate their interpretation for centuries to come. Given the lack of consensus in the analysis of Early Christian sources, this article intends to advance the discussion by placing Valentinian anthropology in the wider religious and philosophical context to which it belongs. In order to do so, I will compare Valentinian views with Plutarch’s conception of the human being as presented in his eschatological myths. Especially, the analysis of his De facie will show that Plutarch provides the best precedent for Valentinian anthropology, and that in both cases myths intend to convey a philosophical, holistic view of human life in which cosmology, theology, anthropology, and ethics are intrinsically connected.

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A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic

Essays in Honor of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez

丛编： Brill's Plutarch Studies, 卷： 2

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出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 27 Jun 2019

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Chapter 11 The Myth of Human Races: Can Plutarch Help Us Understand Valentinian Anthropology?

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