One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions by C. Kavin Rowe (review)

• Autores: Troels Engberg-Pedersen
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 2, 2017, págs. 326-328
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • [...]Chapter Nine addresses the fundamental, underlying issue of “translatability” by presenting and rejecting Jeffrey Stout’s criticism of MacIntyre and even MacIntyre’s own acknowledgement that translation between “traditions in conflict” is in fact possible: “As we will see . . . even MacIntyre’s account is finally insufficient.” There he states, in a manner that one may be allowed to see as a clear expression of neoorthodoxy, that he does not “believe in the division between philosophy and theology” and claims that MacIntyre errs in “trying to solve the problem [of translation] he creates by his description of traditions without resorting to explicitly theological descriptions of change/conversion.” [...]theology provides the answer to a problem supposed to be distinctly philosophical, not just with regard to the comparison between Stoicism and Christianity, but also with regard to scholarly thought in the humanities much more generally (including religious studies) Hermeneutical issues aside (although they are central to the book), readers of this journal will be interested to learn whether Rowe’s accounts of his chosen Stoics, in particular, are adequate—perhaps even illuminating—or whether they “suffer” from his explicitly adopted Christian perspective. [...]if the Sage was as rare as the Phoenix, nobody would ever have lived such a life.) Actually, I am convinced (oddly, with Rowe himself) that the very strong idea of the (supposed) necessity of living for understanding is a quite modern thought, which is not to be found in early Christianity either, nor in that sense in Wittgenstein, whom Rowe presents as his ultimate philosophical support.