Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism
of Greek and Alexandrian speculation, 118n10; on Redemption, 53; on sin and death,122; in Tarsus, 64–65; on unknown
God, 66; on world as passing away,
Pelagianism, 121–22
Pelagius, 119, 121
Penance, 58–59
Pensées (Pascal), 50n19
Peratae, 81
Persephone, 84
Peter, Saint, 57
Peyri, Henri, 9
Philaster, 72n17
Philo, 65, 84–85, 85nn47–48, 118n10, 131
Philosophumena (Hippolytus), 70, 71,
71–72nn13–14, 75–76nn26–29, 79, 80,
80–82nn39–43
Philosophy of Oracles (Porphyry), 48n9
Philostratus, 64
Pilate, Pontius, 57
Pistis Sophia, 79, 82–83
Plato: Camus on, 20n51; compared with Aristotle, 68; Gnosticism influenced by, 83; on God, 53, 53n37; on Good, 93; Justin influenced by, 63; on knowledge, 53; on soul, 111; on time or history, 23; works by, 102nn48–49 Plotinus: and Augustine, 6, 115, 118, 124, 125, 127; on beauty, 91; on body’s relationship with soul, 99– 101; Camus’ choice of, for dissertation, 4n13, 13; on civic virtues, 89n5; on conversion or path of ecstasy, 101–6, 127; death of, 113n98; on desire, 103–4; on evil, 102, 118; evolution from Epictetus to, 44; on Gnosticism, 67, 67n2, 107–8; on
God/World Soul/One, 88, 91–108,
125; and immanence/transcendence argument, 104–5; on Intelligence, 92– 101, 103–4; on light and darkness,
90n8, 100, 101; and metaphysics, 92, 124; on mystical longing for God and destiny of soul, 5–6, 102–8; on mystic reason, 5–6, 88–108; on nature, 90;
on One, 42; originality of, 111; on participation, 6, 31n84; on patrie, royaume and exil, 15–17; and Procession, 91–102, 104; on science,
89–90, 93; on soul, 5–6, 89, 89n4, 92– 93, 96, 99–108, 111; on transparency,
96–98, 97n29, 100; on virtue, 103;
Walker on, 15–17
Plutarch, 42–43n8
Poirier, René, 4, 6
Polycarp, Saint, 55, 56, 59
Poncet, Charles, 3n6
Porphyry: and Augustine, 48n9; on
Christianity, 5, 41, 49n10, 54, 54n39,
107, 109–10; as Egyptian, 42; on
Incarnation, 54; life of Plotinus by,
67n2, 106n66; on resurrection, 41,
110
Predestination, 72, 123
Procession: Plotinus on, 91–102, 104
Prometheus, 34, 83
Psalms, Book of, 123n30
Ptolemaeus, 83
Ptolemy, 42
Puech, Aimé, 62n78, 118–19n10 Pythagoras, 64
Quilliot, Roger, 3n6, 4, 7, 42n7
Rationalism. See Reason
La Réaction païenne (Labriolle), 64n86 Reason: Augustine on, 127–29; and
Christianity, 30–31, 63, 91; and faith, 63, 127–29; and Greeks, 29–30, 40–41; and Neoplatonism generally, 130; Plotinus on mystic reason, 5–6, 88–
108
Rebel, The (Camus): antithesis in, 23;
Archambault on, 20n48; Buber on, 21; and Camus as writer versus philosopher, 7n20; on Christian versus Greek accounts of history, 41n4; compared with Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism,
11n33, 26, 31–34; on Gnosticism,
67n1; on gods of Greeks, 53n37; on
Greeks, 29n77, 33, 34, 133n3; on Hegel, 11n31; on Judaism, 33–34, 52n26, 73n20; on philosophy of history, 52n26; Sartre on, 7n22; and transcendence/immanence argument, 10–12
Redemption: and Augustine, 118;
Barnabas on, 58; and Evangelical
Christianity, 46, 53, 58; and Redemption: and Augustine (cont.)
Gnosticism, 45, 67–68, 72–75, 78, 80–
82, 84; Paul on, 53. See also Salvation
The Refutation of All Heresies
(Hippolytus), 71–72nn13–14, 75– 76nn26–29, 79, 80, 80–82nn39–43
La Religion romaine (Boissier), 64n87 Republic (Plato), 102n48
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (Camus), 123n33
Resurrection: of body, 41, 110; of Christ, 57
“Return to Tipasa” (Camus), 25
Revelation, 63
Roman de la Rose, 76
Romans, Epistle to, 49n15, 50, 50n17, 53nn31–35, 123n30
Rougier, Louis, 22n58, 54n38, 61n74 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 11
Salvation: and Christianity, 68–69; and Gnosticism, 45, 69, 74, 79, 86, 107,
108–9; Greeks on, 69. See also
Redemption
Salvian, 116–17n6
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 6–7, 7n22, 9n26
Satan, 73, 120
Schiller, J. C. F. von, 130
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 16n35
Science, 89–90, 93
Sethians, 81
Shakespeare, William, 66
Shepherd (Hermas), 55, 58–59, 59nn63– 64
Sickness unto Death, The (Kierkegaard),
29n79
Simon of Cyrene, 72
Sin: of Adam, 53; Augustine on, 50,
50n18, 119–23; and Evangelical
Christianity, 49–50, 56, 58–59, 66; Gnosticism on, 68, 70–71; and martyrdom, 71; original sin, 70–71, 121–
23; of Satan, 120. See also Evil
Socrates, 28, 40, 64, 132–33, 133n3
Soliloquia (Augustine), 50–51n20
Sophia, 77–78, 79, 83
Sophist (Plato), 102n48
Sophocles, 40
Soul, 5–6, 89, 89n4, 92–93, 96, 99–108,
111
Sprintzen, David, 15n34
Stoicism, 23n60, 42, 61, 63, 88, 99
Stranger, The (Camus), 8
Stromateis (Clement of Alexandria), 60,
60–61nn68–71, 63n80, 70, 71n11,
72n17, 76n29, 78, 78n36
“Summer in Algiers” (Camus), 106n65
Supplicatio pro christianos (Athenagoras), 62
Symposium (Plato), 102n49
Tatian, 63n80, 64, 86
Teachings of the Twelve Apostles, The,
55, 58
Tertullian: as church father generally, 5,
55; on Gnosticism, 67, 73n19, 86; on Greeks, 23, 23n60, 60–61, 61n71, 64; writings by, 63n80, 67, 72n17, 74n24
Theognoste, 113
Thomas Aquinas, 19
Tiberius, 74
Timothy, Epistle of, 53n32
Tixeront, Joseph, 55nn41–42, 56nn44–
48, 58nn58–59, 58nn61–62, 59n65,
62n78, 112n89, 126n47
Todd, Oliver, 2n4, 4n13, 7, 7n23
Toussaint, C., 84n45
Transcendence/immanence argument,
10–12, 10n30, 16, 16nn38–39, 26–27,
29–30, 104–5
Transparency, 96–98, 97n29, 100
Trinity, 62, 65n89, 112, 124–27
Ulpain of Tyre, 42
University of Algiers, 2–5 Upanishads, 75
Valentinus, 68, 69, 73, 74, 76–80, 83, 84
Viggiani, M., 7 Virtues, 103, 119, 120
Vita Apollonii, 64n88 Voegelin, Eric, 21–22
Walker, I. H., 8, 15–17, 16n35
Ward, Bruce K., 10n30, 15n34, 28n76 Wisdom of Solomon, Book of, 51n21
Word of God, 124–26, 130
Works and faith, 52, 56, 123
The Wrong Side and the Right Side
(Camus), 15
Yazatas, 85–86
Zeller, Eduard, 104
Zeus, 43
Zoroastrianism, 85
The End
Camus Albert
(1913—1960s)