Stoic Roots of the Notion of Fantasy and its Reception by Irenaeus of Lyons

Keywords:

St. Irenaeus, Stoics, Fantasy, Image, Illusion

Abstract

Among the lessons drawn by Irenaeus from the third temptation of Jesus in the desert (Adv. Haer. 5. 22. 2), the deceitful nature of the senses and the need not to be surprised by riches, by worldly glory and by present phantasy (praesenti phantasia) stand out. The Greek term φαντασία, which has its Latin equivalent in imaginatio, had been widely analyzed in Stoic Logic, before undergoing certain changes over time that confined it to the field of Psychology. Linked to assent (συνκατάθεσις) and appetitus, it drags the wise man into error. The novelty of St. Irenaeus consists in giving fantasy a religious nuance, that of the illusory aspect of the sensible world which engenders deceptive images in those who contemplate it.

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Author Biography

Juan Carlos Alby, Universidad Nacional del Litoral / Universidad Católica de las Misiones / Universidad Católica de Santa Fe

Doctor en Filosofía (Universidad Católica de Santa Fe), Licenciado en Filosofía (Universidad Católica de Santa Fe), Bioquímico (Universidad Nacional del Litoral). Ha publicado La medicina filosófica del cristianismo antiguo, Santa Fe, UCSF, 2015, y Tiempo y acontecimiento en la antropología de Ireneo de Lyon, Santa Fe, UCSF, 2016, segunda edición corregida y aumentada. Docente e investigador de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias y de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la UNL. Docente e investigador de la Universidad Católica de las Misiones (UCAMI, Posadas). Investigador por Rectorado de la UCSF y Director de proyectos de investigación
sobre los orígenes del cristianismo y la medicina tardo-antigua. Miembro de la Asociación Internacional de Estudios Patrísticos (AIEP) y de la Sociedad Internacional de Literatura Bíblica.

Published

2023-05-29

How to Cite

Alby, J. C. (2023). Stoic Roots of the Notion of Fantasy and its Reception by Irenaeus of Lyons. Circe De clásicos Y Modernos, 27(1), 101–112. Retrieved from https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/circe/article/view/7548