Metaphysics, Anthropology and Ethics in Albinus

In this work, the aim is to highlight the link between Albinu’s metaphysics and general ethics. After examining the fundamental points of Platonic metaphysics contained in the Didaskalikos, attempting to show their continuity through philosophical anthropology, especially by resorting to the concept of intelligence, in the field of general ethics. In the last part of the work, there is a review of the way in which Albinus exposes his general ethics, which results from the intersection between the ethics of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics.

Albinus, Platonic metaphysics, Medium-platonism, Platonic anthropology, classical ethics

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