Logos-Paedagogus Doctrine By Clement Of Alexandria In Ancient Logosophical Tradition

Abstract

The subject of this research is a part of the philosophical heritage left by Clement of Alexandria(approximately AD 150-210), an Alexandrian School theologian of late Antiquity, his influence onforming a new type of mentality and culture, his role in adapting the ancient cultural heritage toestablishing the Christian ideology, his contribution to developing the Medieval theocentricconsciousness and further manifestation of his ideas in the European philosophy. Clemet’s doctrine on the Logos is preceded by long antique tradition in which Clements’s doctrine has the philosophical reasons. This is Heraclitus, Plato, Stoicism, and Philo of Alexandria. Clement in own way opens a new stage of theological development of this concept, having included it in a Christian context. He specially considers this story in one of the three main works - the treatise "Instructor" which aims to reveal a being of the person Christ, the second person of the Divine Trinity. At the same time, besides all known values of a concept of Logos - "word", "speech", "the contents and a form of the speech", "sense and interrelation of separate parts", "thought", "myth" or "epos", the ontological aspect - "lawful relationship of things", designated by the term Logos or - the deity dominating over space (Heraclitus) or the divine establishment forming space (Plato), or the initial space law (Stoicism) is interesting to Clement more.