ABSTRACT

In this article, the issue of corporeal reality in Evagrius is discussed in abstraction – to the extent that this is possible – from its soteriological purpose. An analysis of Evagrius’ statements about corporeal reality reveals a world that cannot be known in itself, but which is established through a hierarchy of qualifications. Evagrius’ account of the elements and their features, of the relationship of qualities to matter, and of the process in which the intellect apprehends bodies, appears to be deeply indebted to the Stoic account of bodily reality. Evagrius differs, however, in that the corporeal reality he describes is inherently unknowable and lifeless. As he develops Stoic intuitions about the commanding faculty into a vision of an intellect holding within itself a model of its bearer’s body, and as he moves the logoi of judgement and providence outside of corporeal reality, the latter turns into a desert from which life and rationality are absent. An intellect, as a soul, is only liminally present in corporeal reality. Focused on itself, it becomes a subjectivity that only interacts with the external bodily world through a model of the latter that it constructs within the boundaries of the soul itself.

摘要

在本文中，Evagrius 中的肉体现实问题是从其救赎目的抽象地讨论的——在可能的范围内。对 Evagrius 关于肉体现实的陈述的分析揭示了一个本身无法知道的世界，但它是通过资格等级建立的。Evagrius 对元素及其特征、质量与物质的关系以及智力理解身体的过程的描述，似乎深深地归功于斯多葛学派对身体现实的描述。然而，Evagrius 的不同之处在于，他所描述的有形现实本质上是不可知且没有生命的。当他将斯多葛派关于指挥能力的直觉发展成一个智力的愿景时，他的内心拥有一个持有者身体的模型，当他移动物质现实之外的判断和天意的标志，后者变成了一个沙漠，生命和理性都缺席了。智力，作为一个灵魂，只在有形的现实中有限地存在。专注于自身，它成为一种主体性，仅通过它在灵魂本身的边界内构建的外部身体世界模型与外部身体世界相互作用。