Folia Theologica 19. (2008)
Perendy László: Judging Philosophers - Theophilus of Antioch on Hellenic inconsistency
198 PERENDY, László been taught by Antisthenes, but it was his life and influence that gave the Cynics their importance. He taught that the right way of life was to have the simplest possible needs and to satisfy them in the most direct way. (...) [His] ethic is not just one of self-sufficiency, but more one of self-mastery born of a healthy contempt for one's own pleasures and pains, and especially born of impatience with the conventions and hierarchies of a presumably corrupt society."16 He died in 323 BC. Diogenes is mentioned among the other Greek authors whose doctrines did not avail anything for them. His philosophy is not explained by Theophilus. The teaching of the Stoa KaQànEp yàp \)/\)%fj èv àvGpconcp où ßÄinexat, àôpaxoç oboa àvQpconotç, Sià Sè xrjç Kivfjaecoç xoù Gcopaxoç voEtxat [f| vj/nyÉL oùxcoç ë%oi àv Kai (xô) xôv Geôv pij ôùvaoGat ôpaQrjvat ùnô àcpGaXpcov àvQpcontvcov, Stà 8è xrjç npovotaç Kai xcov ëpyœv aùxoù ßXeiteaGai Kai voEtoGat. "Ov xpónov yàp Kai ttAoîov Geaoâpevôç xiç év Ga/Váöori KaxipxiG|_iévov Kai xpéyov Kai Kaxspyopevov eiç Axpéva ôrjXov oxt 'nyiiaexat Etvat èv aùxœ Kußepviixriv xôv kl>- ßepvffivxa aùxô, oùxcoç ôeî voeîv Etvat xôv Geôv Kt$Epvf|xr|v xœv ÖA.COV, eí Kai où GEa>pEÎ|xai ôcp6aÀ,potç oapKtvoiç Stà xô aùxôv áxcóprixov Etvat. Ei yàp xcp f\À.icp, ÈÀayioxcp övxo axoi%£ico, où ôùvaxat àvQpco- noç àxEviaai 5ià xf]v bnEpßaAAooGav Géppr|v Kai ôùvaptv, ncoç oùyi paÀAov xrj xoù Geoù 8ô£,r|, àvEKcppàcxcp oùafl, àvGpconoç Gv- rjxôç où ôùvaxat âvxconrjoat; "Ov xpónov yàp poàa, Eyonoa cpXotôv xôv nEptéyovxa aùxfjv, evôov oyEt povàç Kai Gr|Kaç noÀAàç, ôtaycûptÇopévaç ôtà ùpévcov, Kai noÂAoùç kôkkouç [eyet], xoùç èv aùxrj KaxotKoùvxaç, oùxcoç iî naca kxîgiç nEptéyoxat ùnô nvEùpaxoç Geoù, Kai xô nvEÙpa xô ncpteyov oùv xfj kxîgei n£p- téyExat ùnô yetpàç Geoù- coonEp oùv ô kôkkoç xrjç poaç evôov Ka- xoikcùv où ôùvaxat ôpav xf) eÇco xoù Xénouç, aùxôç cov evôov, oùxcoç oùôè àvGpconoç èpnEptEyôpEVoç pxxà nàoriç xrjç kxîoecoç ùnô yctpôç Geoù où ôùvaxat GEcopEÎv xôv Geôv. Etxa ßaotXe^ pèv èntyEtoç ntaxaÙExat EÎvat, KatnEp pf) nactv ßXEnópEvoç, ôtà ôè vôpcov ôtaxà^ecov aùxoù Kai èiçotxncov 16 Blackburn, 106-107.
